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Africa, and so far several other places such as belgium, hong kong, and israel have confirmed cases. in europe, travel restrictions are being weighed against seven african countries, six of those being added to the uks red list. all flights from those locations suspended. today the world health organization meets to determine how they should classify the new variant. meanwhile, dr. anthony fauci says despite there being no indication the variant is in the u.s., we need to be prepared to take pro...

This tech have started investigating the impact of the variant on its vaccine developed with pfizer, with data expected within the next couple weeks. this isnt the first variants to initially be detected in south africa. last year the beta variant was identified there. there were fears it could quickly spread around the world and become the dominant variant worldwide. that didnt happen. now authorities are working to see whether this new variant will slowly smolder or quickly spread around the p...

To cause infection. the covid-19 vaccines target the spike protein. if the spike changes too much and in the wrong ways, it could make the vaccines less effective. learns where the mutations are and how they change the spike protein, will be key. >> first of all, were getting the material together with our south african colleagues to get a situation where you can directly test it. >> reporter: scientists and biontech have already started investigating the variant, with data expected within the n...

Fauci told cnn earlier today. >> first of all, you want to find out if, in fact, it does evade the vaccines that were doing. i mean, theres always the possibility of doing what the uk has done, namely, block travel from south africa and related countries. we dont know know that. thats something you think about and get prepared to do. youre prepared to do everything you need to do to protect the american public. but you want to make sure theres a basis for doing that, and theres what were doing r...

Theyre also putting money back into stay-at-home stocks. weve seen everything from zoom and netflix to teladoc actually gained ground here. i want to caution this is a holiday on wall street. the nyse closing at 1:00 p.m. in new york. very thin trading volume and that can amplify moves one way or the other. the market is still up big, more than 20% so far this year despite todays losses. the spooich has more than doubled the lows of march of 2020. big picture, we need more information. if this d...

Around south africa? will it take to the world stage? heres what we know so far. it doesnt even have a name yet, one of those greek letters, because its not officially a variant of concern or interest, so its called b.1.1.529. the problem is it more than 30 mutations in the spike protein. thats what researchers say. its an important part of the virus, how it does its work to get into our cells. the vaccine is designed to work on the spike protein. if there are too many variations in that protein...

Whether they will stop travelers coming from the african continent. the united kingdom reinstated its red list for most of southern africa out of an abundance of caution, calling it temporary, but it could take several weeks for scientists to figure out just how dangerous this variant is. now, the move has been criticized by the south african government, calling it hasty, saying more information is needed. the africa cdc also saying that bans are not helpful and that tracing and testing is more ...

The past those kind of vaccine escape variants have not really translated into major global path os gens. we have seen this before, but with the beta variant, with the lambda variant, those never really took off. so theres nothing intrinsic in the spike protein that would account for global spread. the two worst ones, the alpha, that arose out of theuu uk, and the delta variant that rose out of an unvaccinated population in india, was because of amino acid substitution that caused it to be a muc...

The beta variant, the pace with which they took over in south africa so they say that is of concern but they are busy in the laboratory down near durban right now trying to work out the implications of these multiple concerning mutations and whether or not, as you said earlier, and as fergus said, whether or not they will allow this new variant to somehow escape the defence mechanisms that we have in our bodies either from mechanisms that we have in our bodies eitherfrom prior mechanisms that we...

The Department of Health on Monday reported 21 new cases of the more contagious Delta variant, bringing the total Delta cases in the country to 3,387.