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The WHO on Friday cautioned against imposing travel restrictions due to the B.1.1.529 Covid-19 variant, saying it would take weeks to understand the implications of the newly discovered strain.

Several countries and regions including Israel, South Africa and Chinas Hong Kong have identified cases of what some Western media called the

European nations announce travel curbs for South Africa where new strain first detected through surveillance

Geneva/ London: More countries are tightening their travel restrictions after a new coronavirus variant was identified in South Africa earlier this week. The UK, Japan and Singapore are among those rushing in stricter quarantine measures or banning flights from South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe,Mozambique, Namibia and Eswatini. The EU is proposing to...

At the close, the UK blue-chip index was a massive 266.34 points, or 3.6% lower at 7,044.03, just above the session low of 7,042.12 and well...

At the close, the UK blue-chip index was a massive 266.34 points, or 3.6% lower at 7,044.03, just above the session low of 7,042.12 and well...

I am pleased to say i can bring in the professor from the centre in south africa who has been at the world health organisation meeting now discussing this nu variant. thank you forjoining us. tell us how the meeting went and what did you discuss? thank you for inviting me to your programme. that is what we call the technical working group on virus evolution and that normally happens every seven weeks. there are 25 members across the world with many of the top virologists and biologists and we ha...

Sars-like symptoms back in 2012. three of them died. >> that is the closest known relative of sars-cov-2. and we dont even know that thats the virus that made those six miners sick. >> how close are we talking about here? >> 96% similar. sounds like a high number. but in terms of virus evolution, that 4% difference takes decades. their last common ancestor probably was out there in nature 30 or 40 years ago. >> she said theres a zero chance this came from her lab. what did you think of that? >> ...

Covi 2. >> the closest relative was ratg 13 was found in a horseshoe bat. the sample was taken by a team of researchers from the wuhan institute of virology. it was collected from a mine where six miners worked and got sick. some died. >> that was the closest relative of sarscovi 2. >> how close are we talking about here? >> 96% similar. sounds like a high number but in terms of virus evolution, that 4% difference takes decades.

The list of Covid variant ‘launch dates’ contained in the Instagram post is also inaccurate.