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Public Health England is to step up its surveillance of a highly transmissible variant of coronavirus that arrived in the UK after fuelling a surge in the number of cases in South Africa. The new variant was detected in the UK shortly before Christmas when health authorities tested two people who became infected following contact with separate travellers from the country. Scientists are particularly concerned about the South African variant,...

Order Reprints Text size The number of visitors to Costco stores fell year over year in December, according to data from Placer.ai. Anthony Devlin/Getty Images Costco stock is edging between small gains and losses after the warehouse club operator delivered upbeat news about its December same-store sales. Costco Wholesale (COST) said it netted net sales of $19.14 billion in the five-week period ended Jan. 3, while sales at stores open at least a year rose 10.7% fr...

Covid testing plans leave England’s school leaders guessing Ben Quinn © Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images Pupils socially distancing as they walk between classes. Tens of thousands of secondary pupils in England are to be tested as schools reopen. They’ve got the space, more often than not – usually in the form of airy sports halls which will soon be expected to double up as Covid-19 testing centres for thousands of secondary school pupils in England under ambitio...

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Order Reprints Text size Target, Walmart, and Costco have seen sales surge this year, and Stifel’s Mark Astrachan thinks they can sustain growth. Anthony Devlin/Getty Images While the first Americans have already received the Covid-19 vaccine, a significant portion of the population remains wary of the jab—and that could be a catalyst for some consumer stocks. Stifel’s Mark Astrachan recently conducted a survey and found that 18% of respondents do not want to recei...