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Coronavirus variant sweeps South Africa, exhibiting ‘terrifying’ dominance Lesley Wroughton, Max Bearak © Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images A morgue attendant at the Pretoria branch of the South African funeral and burial services company Avbob applies a biohazard warning on the body of a patient who died of the coronavirus on Jan. 22. CAPE TOWN, South Africa South Africa was already one of the countries worst-hit by the coronavirus, but in the six weeks since a new, more transmissible variant was publicly announced here, an enormous spike of cases and deaths has far surpassed previous waves of the pandemic. The variant is thought to have emerged in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province but has now been found in at least 32 countries, sparking fears that its unmitigated spread to other parts of the world could usher in new waves of contagion just as the long slog of global vaccine rollout gets underway.

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