New York City is experiencing a new coronavirus strain sharing some of South Africa’s characteristics with different species, researchers said Wednesday. As of mid-February, a new variant named B..5.526 was present in 12 percent of coronavirus samples collected in and around the Big Apple Pal, said researchers at Columbia University …
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NEW YORK – The Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and Bioentech was found to be working against key mutations in highly transmissible new variants of coronavirus found in the U.S. and South Africa, U.S. A peer-reviewed study so far by scientists from Pfizer and the University of Texas Medical School …
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On December 29, 2020, a Kovid-19 patient breathes oxygen in the Kovid-19 ward of Khayalitasha Hospital, 35 kilometers from the center of Cape Town. Roder Bosch | AFP | Getty Images A form of coronavirus known in South Africa is more problematic than the strain found in the UK, Britain’s …
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) – South Africa’s Covid-19 spike took the country to more than 1 million confirmed cases on Sunday, and President Cyril Ramaphosa called an emergency meeting of the National Coronavirus Command Council. The country’s new form of coronavirus, 501.V2, is more contagious and has quickly become dominant in many …
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Nairobi, Kenya (AP) – Another new strain of coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, a top African health official said on Thursday, but added that further investigations are needed. Following the announcement of similar variants in Britain and South Africa, the epidemic could raise new epidemic alarms, leading to …
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