Full CoverageOmicron: How worried should we be?
By James Gallagher
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EU states agree to suspend travel from southern Africa
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By Haroon Siddique
Dow tumbles 900 points for worst day of year on fears of new Covid variant, S&P 500 drops 2%
By Jesse Pound & Eustance H.
What We Know About the Omicron Clan of Virus Variants
By Jason Gale
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Only 1 in 4 African health workers fully vaccinated against COVID-19
By Collins Boakye-agyemang
South Africa to be put on England’s travel red list over new Covid variant
By Hannah Devlin, Ian Sample & Jessica Elgot
EXCLUSIVE South Africa delays COVID vaccine deliveries as inoculations slow
By Promit Mukherjee
‘The virus is always searching for its next move’: why science is alert to new variants
By Donato Paolo Mancini, John Burn-Murdoch & Oliver Barnes
South Africa detects a new variant, prompting new international travel restrictions. (Published 2021)
By Lynsey Ebony Chutel, Andrés Martinez & Mike Ives
South African scientists detect new virus variant amid spike
By Mogomotsi Magome & Andrew Meldrum
Israel restricts travel to southern Africa over new COVID-19 variant
By Daniel Wallis & Jeffrey Heller