The Canadian government announced Friday that it is banning foreign nationals travelling to the country from seven Southern African countries, South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, ...

South African data offered a glimmer of hope on Wednesday about the severity of the Omicron coronavirus variant, but World Health Organization officials cautioned that it was too soon to draw firm ...

As the world grapples with the emergence of the new highly transmissible variant of COVID-19, worried scientists in South Africa — where omicron was first identified — are scrambling to combat its ...

At least five countries and airlines, including Germany and Turkey, are reported to have banned flights from South Africa on Monday over the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus.

The federal government is implementing a travel ban on several south African countries after a new COVID-19 variant was discovered there. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced Friday the ...

Ontario is reporting its first case of the COVID-19 virus variant first identified in South Africa in a Peel Region resident. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. No history of travel or ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Eleven people in different regions of England have tested positive for the South African coronavirus variant without having any links to people who have travelled, prompting mass ...

JOHANNESBURG/LONDON — Authorities around the world have reacted with alarm https://reut.rs/3DYILH1 to a new coronavirus variant detected in South Africa. Britain, the European Union and India are ...

What is this new COVID-19 variant in South Africa? South African scientists have identified a new version of the coronavirus this week that they say is behind a recent spike in COVID-19 infections in ...

Authorities around the world have reacted with alarm to the recently discovered coronavirus variant B.1.1.529 that the World Health Organization labelled a variant of concern and named omicron Friday.