The San Diego County Public Health Department found more than two dozen new COVID-19 variant cases Aaron Chown/AP A French firefighter from the Sapeurs-Pompiers du Nord, who has been deployed from France to assist in testing, conducts a COVID-19 test on a driver at the Port of Dover in Kent, where thousands wait to resume their journey across The Channel after the borders with France reopened. Trucks inched slowly past checkpoints in Dover and headed across the Channel to Calais on Thursday after France partially reopened its borders following a scare over a rapidly spreading new virus variant.(Aaron Chown/PA via AP)