The current vaccines will still prevent severe illness and hospitalization. Since the emergence of several new COVID-19 variants across the globe, scientists have been racing to understand their ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Worried scientists in South Africa are scrambling to combat the lightning spread across the country of the new and highly transmissible omicron COVID-19 variant as the world ...

A mutated and more infectious coronavirus strain first identified in South Africa is "disturbing" and could pose a threat to antibody treatments that are used to prevent people from falling seriously ...

A second person has tested positive for the South African COVID-19 variant on Long Island. Both variant cases so far were detected in Nassau County, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office. The first ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As more data points drop, each shows that we are beating back the coronavirus pandemic here in California. New cases, hospitalizations and even deaths are down. But, the battle ...

LONDON - Developers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine expect to have a modified jab to cope with the South Africa coronavirus variant by autumn, the vaccine’s lead researcher said Sunday. Health ...

Reason for concern, but not unnecessary alarm, researchers say. The first real-world study pitting COVID-19 variants against the Pfizer vaccine showed that the variant first detected in South Africa ...

Viruses mutate all the time and it’s no surprise that the coronavirus that emerged in China at the end of 2019 has undergone several significant mutations during the pandemic. But a new strain of the ...

South Carolina officials have confirmed two cases of the coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa, the first known cases in the U.S. 1. The infected individuals live in different counties, ...

Jan 20 (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the ...

JOHANNESBURG, Dec 21 (Reuters) - 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 ...