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The US sequences 0.01% of its coronavirus cases - a glaring Achilles' heel in the country's pandemic response awoodward@insider.com (Aylin Woodward) © Youngrae Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images A college student in Chicago, Illinois gets tested for COVID-19. Youngrae Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Since the fall, researchers have identified worrisome coronavirus variants spreading worldwide. To spot these mutated strains, scientists must genetically sequence samples from infected patients. But the US sequences just 0.01% of...

UK's R number drops sharply to between 0.8 and 1 - suggesting lockdown is working Minister on border closures Replay Video UP NEXT The coronavirus R number in the UK has fallen sharply since last week, suggesting the lockdown is slowing the spread of coronavirus. The R, which refers to the number of people that an infected person will pass COVID-19 on to, is between 0.8 and 1 across the UK, according to the Science and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). Last week, the R - or the reproduction number - was between 1.2 and 1.3 for the UK as a whole. The number of new infecti...

CDC says there's no evidence of a 'USA variant' of the coronavirus, dismissing rumors stoked by the White House task force hbrueck@businessinsider.com (Hilary Brueck,Aylin Woodward) © Tasos Katopodis/Getty Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a briefing on the Trump administration's coronavirus response in the press briefing room of the White House. Tasos Katopodis/Getty The White House coronavirus task force shared a report with states saying a possible "USA variant" may be responsible for the coronavirus surge. The report suggested the USA variant was more transmissibl...

news Have countries kept their climate change promises? © Getty Images It was all smiles in Paris in 2015 but have countries fulfilled their climate promises? Agreed by 196 parties in the French capital in December 2015, the Paris climate deal aims to keep the rise in global temperatures this century "well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C." Every one of the signatories has had to lodge a climate action plan with the UN to spell out what steps they are taking to curb carbon. Overall, according to a new assessment from glob...