The health secretary said that the new variant was of huge international concern and that it may have reached the UK.
A ban on flights from southern Africa is a possibility, according to the top U.S. infectious disease official. The European Union and Britain have tightened border controls after a new variant of the disease was detected in South Africa. The World Health Organization cautioned against hasty measures and South Africa said a British ban on flights seemed rushed.
The European Union might stop air travel from places where a new coronaviruses variant has been found, the bloc's executive said ahead of a meeting later on Friday of the 27 member states' envoys to decide the matter. The EU and Britain tightened border controls on Friday as scientists tried to find out if the new variant was vaccine-resistant. Ursula von der Leyen, the executive's head, said that the Commission would propose to stop air travel from the southern African region due to the variant of concern B. 1.1.529.
A new coronaviruses variant is spreading quickly in southern Africa. It could be the result of vaccine discrimination.
South Koreans are paying to sit in movie theaters and for time slots at special quiet spaces to do nothing and space out, according to The Washington Post.
The Ventura County Star is called the VC Star.
An autopsy found that Ari Larson died from a health condition that she and her family did not know about.
The Scottish Labour leader has said that two more children have died after contracting infections at Scotland's crisis-hit "super hospital".
The owner of Chapman's ice cream company says the company was flooded with calls and emails.
Cowboy Bebop looks at this point more like Cowboy womp-womp than a live-action adaptation of a beloved anime. Variety had a review of the series that said it was just a bunch of hype.
Dr. Amesh A. Adalia thinks that booster shots for this age group will happen, but he doesn't think it's necessary. There isn't strong evidence that this is necessary.
The actor told Insider that the uncomfortable scene in his new show is taken from his real life.
GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel wrote that Biden thinks Americans struggling to afford food need perspective.
A white former police officer in St. Louis was sentenced to prison on Monday after being found guilty by a jury.
Israel is on the threshold of an emergency situation after authorities detected the country's first case of a new coronaviruses variant and barred travel to and from most African countries. The Health Ministry said it was investigating two other suspected cases after detecting a new strain in a traveler who had returned from Malawi. Bennett said at the Cabinet meeting that the new variant is more spread than the delta variant.
The Canadian rock star wrote that he had tested positive for Covid-19. I tested positive for the second time in a month after arriving in Milano. I am going to the hospital. Next to pictures of him, he said thanks for all your support.
Whether buying computer chips directly from manufacturers, reconfiguring cars, or producing them with parts missing, automakers are having to get creative to cope with the global shortage of semiconductors. The auto industry has been hit hard by the shortage due to supply problems and a surge in demand for consumer electricals during the Pandemic. Daimler and Volkswagen have had to rethink their production strategies due to the problem lasting longer than expected.
The U.K. added six African countries to its travel list on Thursday after a new variant of Covid-19 was identified there. The countries are South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini. Twenty-two positive cases of the variant have been found.
The US has suffered more deaths from the coronaviruses-borne illness COVID-19 in the years of 2020 and 2021, even though vaccines that prevent serious illness and death have been available since April, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Lawyers for the former White House chief of staff are pushing for documents to be released in his court case on contempt-of-Congress charges.
The Los Angeles Times has an opinion.
There was a surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Central California. Their leaders need to do a better job.
