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Passengers on 2 KLM flights from South Africa to Amsterdam were held on their planes for at least 4 hours after landing in Europe amid fears of the new COVID-19 variant
Passengers were eventually brought inside the terminal on airport shuttle buses for mandatory testi…
Thomas Pallini
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Forget reopening. The new COVID variant has 'stay-at-home' stocks rebounding.
Little is known about the new COVID strain except it may be vaccine-resistant. Meanwhile traders ar…
Ben Winck
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Dow falls 700 points as new coronavirus variant threatens to derail global economic recovery
Travel-related stocks sold off sharply, while shares of vaccine makers and stay-at-home stock plays…
Carla Mozée
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BioNTech says it will know in 2 weeks whether the COVID-19 vaccine it developed with Pfizer works against the new variant rapidly spreading in southern Africa
The B.1.1.529 variant has been detected in South Africa, Botswana, Hong Kong, and Israel, and it's …
Grace Dean
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Chart shows how quickly the new coronavirus variant spread in part of South Africa, totally supplanting Delta
Early data shared by South African health officials showed B.1.1.529 rapidly taking hold in one pro…
Mia Jankowicz
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UK suspending flights from 6 African countries over new coronavirus variant fears: 'Our scientists are deeply concerned'
The UK is suspending flights from several African countries over a newly identified coronavirus var…
Blake Dodge
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Israel has reported its first COVID-19 case involving a 'worrying' new coronavirus variant that's spreading fast in southern Africa
The B.1.1.529 variant was detected in a person traveling to Israel from Malawi, and two other peopl…
Kate Duffy
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BioNTech has already started developing a new Omicron version of its COVID-19 vaccine
The German biotech, which makes COVID-19 vaccines with Pfizer, said Monday it doesn't want to "wast…
Mary Hanbury
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Belgium records Europe's first case of the new coronavirus variant spreading in southern Africa
Health minister Frank Vandenbroucke told media it was found in a traveler who entered Belgium and t…
Alexandra Ma
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Cruise and airline stocks sell off as global health officials track new coronavirus variant with 'large number of mutations'
"What we do know is that this variant has a large number of mutations," said a WHO official about t…
Carla Mozée
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A wave of countries is banning and restricting travel from southern Africa over a new virus variant
Officials are reacting swiftly after cases of a new coronavirus variant were found mostly in South …
Thomas Colson
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A leading public health expert has pleaded with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett to help fight coronavirus variants in Africa
The plea, from the director of South Africa's Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, comes af…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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The new COVID-19 variant grabbing global headlines, this is what we know so far about it
After the Delta variant, a new COVID-19 variant named ‘B.1.1529’, which was found in South Africa, …
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Scientists are closely tracking a coronavirus variant with a 'worrying' number of mutations. They don't yet know if it's more infectious.
COVID-19 cases involving the new variant of the coronavirus have been detected in South Africa, Bot…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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CDC chart shows how Omicron went from 0.7% to 73% of US COVID-19 cases in just 2 weeks
The highly transmissible variant was only recently detected in the US, and is now the dominant coro…
Sinéad Baker
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Fauci says there is no indication the new coronavirus variant found in southern Africa is in the US
Fauci told CNN's "New Day" on Friday there is concern over "possibly transmissibility increase and …
Sinéad Baker
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Rise of a new coronavirus variant in Africa looks like the disaster scenario experts warned of if rich nations hoarded vaccines for themselves
A new coronavirus variant, named B.1.1.529, is spreading rapidly in southern Africa. It could be th…
Sinéad Baker
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The World Health Organization is advising people over 60 not to travel amid spread of Omicron variant
The organization has encouraged all travelers to remain vigilant for symptoms, get vaccinated, and …
Sarah Al-Arshani
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61 COVID-19 cases were detected on flights from South Africa to the Netherlands amid concern of new Omicron variant
"I am surrounded by MORONS who don't even have their masks on. When we're marooned because of a pos…
Katie Balevic
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A new coronavirus variant called 'Omicron' is now a 'variant of concern,' the WHO said
South Africa first reported the Omicron variant, or B.1.1.529, to the World Health Organization on …