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Those are pictures of the Covenant Engineer, not a Flood. The description of the Engineers in the Halo novels fits with the the creatures in the pictures. Engineer. Not Flood.
Also, the new alien is not Covenant. All slots are filled in the Covenant. There are seven races, and there will be no more because Bungie loves the number seven. If you asked them to pick a number between one and ten, they'd pick seven. If you asked them to pick a number between 100 and 200, they would still pick seven. Point is, unless the new alien is a female hunter with pms, it is not part of the covenant.