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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — 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 lightning spread across the country.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- With each passing hour, new restrictions were being slapped on travel from countries in southern Africa as the world sc

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Worried scientists in South Africa are scrambling to combat the lightning spread...

Britain became the latest country Saturday to report cases of the new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Britain is the latest country to report cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant as world governments restrict travel from southern Africa.

Nearly two years on since the start of the pandemic that has claimed more than 5 million lives around the world, countries are on high alert.

Amid fears that the recently identified new variant has the potential to be more resistant to the protection offered by vaccines, there are growing concerns that the pandemic and associated lockdown restrictions will persist for far longer than hoped.

Coronavirus cabinet reportedly bans non-citizen international travelers for two weeks, approves Shin Bet tracking for confirmed virus carriers

Black Friday took on a distinctly ominous tone with stock markets falling and benchmark U.S. oil prices sliding below US$70 a barrel to end the week,…

While jabs and boosters are offered in the U.S. and much of Europe, vaccination rates remain low in southern Africa, where the Omicron variant was first detected.