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02.02.2021 / 15:48

Is the South African Covid variant more deadly – and do vaccines work?

n a small number of communities. A “small number of people” are now found to be infected with the Covid-19 variant – despite having no travel links to South Africa.

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South Africa Covid variant: People in 8 areas told 'think again' before going to buy food

80,000 Brits in areas with the new South African Covid strain have been warned to "think again" before going out to buy food, medicine and other essential goods.

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02.02.2021 / 12:42

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'Think again' before going out for food, residents in eight areas with new South African Covid variant told

reports. A government minister said 80,000 people in the affected areas must "think carefully" before doing anything outside of their home - even if it is currently allowed under England's coronavirus lockdown rules.

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People who've had Covid 'could still catch South African variant', expert warns

People who have had coronavirus could still catch the new South African variant ripping through the country, an expert has warned.

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South African Covid variant: Thousands of Brits told to 'think again' about leaving home in hotspots

coronavirus have been warned to "think again" before going out to buy food, medicine and other essential goods. A Tory minister said the 80,000 people in the affected areas must think carefully before doing anything outside their home - even if it's currently allowed under England's lockdown.

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Door-to-door Covid-19 testing starts today - all the areas where it will take place

A door-to-door Covid-19 testing blitz of 80,000 people in England begins today in eight areas in a bid to find "every single case" of the mutant South African strain.

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Calgary student who tested positive for COVID-19 variant was at school while infectious: Hinshaw

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51 COVID-19 variant cases identified in Alberta

While COVID-19 numbers are slowly going down in Alberta, concern is rising over variants which both spread at a faster rate than the initial strain of the virus.

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UK Covid-19 variant present in 82 countries, South African strain in 39: WHO

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Toronto detects workplace variant cases while Peel records 1st case of South African variant

Toronto Public Health says an outbreak at a Toronto meat packing plant has located two cases of the U.K. variant. Meanwhile, Peel Region is the first place in the province to see a case of the South African variant. Matthew Bingley reports.

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South Africa Covid variant: Everything we know as UK door-to-door testing rolled out

The South African Covid-19 variant appears to have spread across England - here's everything we know so far.

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Ontario confirms 1st case of South African coronavirus variant with no known link to travel

coronavirus variant and officials say there is no known link to travel.Dr.

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01.02.2021 / 21:56

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Matt Hancock 'puts down myth' about Covid vaccines

direct to your inbox Matt Hancock used the latest Downing Street press conference to "put to bed" a myth circulating about the coronavirus vaccine.

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01.02.2021 / 21:45

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Matt Hancock lists the eight postcode areas where South African Covid variant has been found

direct to your inboxMatt Hancock has revealed the eight postcode areas where the new South African variant of coronavirus has been found.The Health Secretary told a Downing Street briefing this afternoon that door to door testing would be conducted in areas where the new strain of coronavirus has been identified.He urged residents to stay home and get a test, regardless of whether they have symptoms or not, if they live in an area where the new variant has been found.A total of 105 cases of the South African variant have now been identified in the UK, Mr Hancock told the briefing.Eleven of the cases have no apparent links to international travel, he added."There's currently no evidence to suggest this variant is anymore severe but we need

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01.02.2021 / 20:31

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South African Covid variant found in Southport area - urgent testing sites set up

direct to your inboxThe South African variant of coronavirus has been found in Merseyside.Residents in the area of Southport will now be offered additional testing after evidence located the variant in the area. It comes as experts are seeking to urgently test 80,000 people in England for Covid-19 after it emerged that the South African strain of the virus may have spread in some regions.

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South Africa welcomes first delivery of Covid-19 vaccines

South Africa gave a hero's welcome Monday to the delivery of its first Covid-19 vaccines — 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India.South African President Cyril Ramaphosa greeted the crates of vaccine that arrived at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo International Airport, which will be followed up later this month by another 500,000 doses of the vaccine.Also Read | How India can fight vaccine hesitancyThe vaccine will be effective in preventing severe disease and death from the variant that has become dominant in South Africa, a vaccine expert says.The AstraZeneca vaccines will be used to inoculate South Africa's front-line health workers, which will kickstart the country’s vaccination campaign.

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01.02.2021 / 18:27

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Urgent testing in Surrey after two people are found with South African Covid variant despite no links

coronavirus after it emerged the South African strain of the virus may have started spreading in the community.

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Covid tests carried out door-to-door as South African mutant strain spreads across UK

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxUrgent door-to-door tests are to be carried out for Covid after cases of the mutant South African strain were found across the UK.Residents in a part of Surrey are to be urgently tested for Covid-19 after it emerged the South African strain of the virus may have started spreading in the community.There have been two positive cases of the strain in people with no links to travel or previous contact with those affected , causing scientists concern.So far, 105 cases of the strain have been identified to date across the UK, but this is the first signal of wider community spread.Responding to the outbreak, Surrey County Council said the

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Door-to-door 'surge testing' to start in Surrey after South African Covid variant found

Residents in parts of Surrey will be offered coronavirus tests after two people who had not travelled to South Africa caught the country's Covid-19 variant.

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COVID-19 case at Garibaldi Secondary was in close contact with variant: Fraser Health

Why experts say B.C. should get as close to ‘COVID-zero’ as possible The Maple Ridge COVID-19 testing centre will be closed Monday to support this testing.Appointments at the centre have been rescheduled, and walk-ins will be redirected to other testing centres.Fraser Health says they have notified all staff and students who were close contacts to the case.

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Novavax submits coronavirus vaccine to Health Canada for approval

COVID-19 vaccine that has been submitted for regulatory approval.Maryland-based Novavax quietly applied on Friday for Health Canada to approve its vaccine, which studies have suggested is effective against the British and South African variants of the virus.

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‘I’m not afraid of COVID’: Why some Canadians choose to travel abroad amid a pandemic

pandemic.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced new travel restrictions — including a mandatory 3-day hotel quarantine on the travellers’ dime — in order to help stop the spread of COVID-19.Trudeau has cautioned Canadians against non-essential travel for months amid rising coronavirus cases and new variants that have emerged from the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil.“With the challenges we currently face with COVID-19, both here at home and abroad, we all agree that now is just not the time to be flying,” Trudeau said.“By putting in place these tough measures now, we can look forward to a better time, when we can all plan those vacations.”The move on restricting travel comes more than a year after the first case of

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Canada, EU nations limit travel activities amid mutated Covid infection surge

EU nation limit travel activitiesFrance, Germany and the Czech Republic said Friday they will restrict in-and outbound travel amid concerns about more contagious strains of the coronavirus spreading across the European Union.French Prime Minister Jean Castex said travel between France and non-EU countries would stop from Monday, while all travelers from the EU would be tested for the coronavirus.More transmissible UK and South African strains pose a "great risk" of a surge in virus cases in the republic, he warned, adding that all big shopping malls will be shut and clients of smaller ones will be spaced further out starting next week.The German government said it would bar most travelers from countries reporting more contagious coronavirus

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EU regulators give nod to AstraZeneca COVID vaccine for emergency use

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today recommended the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine for emergency use in European Union (EU) countries, which came with more details about efficacy, which is about 60%, with the vaccine showing good impact against severe disease.

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Quebec ramps up efforts to identify COVID-19 variants with surveillance plan

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Canada to quarantine travelers, suspend flights to Mexico and the Caribbean

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is shown in a file photo. (Photo by Arindam Shivaani/NurPhoto via Getty Images) TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced stricter restrictions on travelers in response to new, likely more contagious variants of the novel coronavirus — including making it mandatory for travelers to quarantine in a hotel at their own expense when they arrive in Canada and suspending airline service to Mexico and all Caribbean destinations until April 30.Trudeau said in addition to the pre-boarding test Canada already requires, the government will be introducing mandatory PCR testing at the airport for people returning to Canada.RELATED: UK variant, South Africa variant, Brazil variant: A guide to known

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Johnson & Johnson announces vaccine efficacy as Florida reports 10,871 new COVID-19 cases

ORLANDO, Fla. – Johnson & Johnson’s long-awaited single-dose vaccine could soon go before federal regulators, seeking emergency use authorization.

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EU regulator backs AstraZeneca jab as worries grow over coronavirus strains

- 'Reaching the limit' -Cases have soared past 101 million worldwide, and despite the rollout of vaccines, the fight has been further complicated by the emergence of more contagious variants first detected in Britain, Brazil and South Africa.American biotech firm Novavax said Thursday that its vaccine showed an overall efficacy of 89.3 percent in a major British clinical trial, and was highly effective against the variant first detected there.But other results showed it offered significantly less protection against the South African strain.Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi has warned that warned hospitals across southern Africa are "rapidly reaching the limit of their capacities", in part down to the new variant.Pfizer and Moderna have

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J&J's Covid-19 vaccine 66% effective in large global trial

Johnson & Johnson said that its single-dose vaccine was 66% effective in preventing Covid-19 in a large trial against multiple variants across three continents.

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Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose coronavirus shot appears less effective than others

Johnson & Johnson on Friday said its single-dose vaccine was 72% effective in preventing COVID-19 in the United States but a lower rate of 66% was observed globally in the large trial conducted across three continents and against multiple variants.In the trial of nearly 44,000 volunteers, the level of protection against moderate and severe COVID-19 was 66% in Latin America and just 57% in South Africa, where a particularly worrying variant of the novel coronavirus is circulating.Those results compare to the high bar set by two authorized vaccines from Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE and Moderna Inc, which were around 95% effective in preventing symptomatic illness in pivotal trials when given in two doses.

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J&J 1-dose shot prevents COVID-19, but less than some others

Johnson & Johnson’s long-awaited vaccine appears to protect against COVID-19 with just one shot – not as strong as some two-shot rivals but still potentially helpful for a world in dire need of more doses.

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29.01.2021 / 12:27

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New UK-made Covid vaccine could be approved 'in weeks' - this is how the Novavax jab works

direct to your inboxA fourth Covid-19 vaccine could be approved for use in the UK within weeks as late-stage trials suggested it was 89pc effective in preventing coronavirus.The UK has secured 60 million doses of the Novavax jab – to be produced on Teesside – which is believed to offer protection against the new UK and South African variants.It was shown to be 89.3pc effective at preventing coronavirus in participants in its Phase 3 clinical trial in the UK, which involved more than 15,000 people aged between 18-84, of which 27% were older than 65, Novavax said.The vaccine will now be assessed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed, as he thanked volunteers who made the

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How does the Novavax vaccine work?

A vaccine from Novavax has been shown to be 89% effective in preventing Covid-19, according to the US biotech firm.

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Novavax' covid-19 vaccine shows 89% efficacy in phase 3 trial

NEW DELHI : In another potential boost to availability of robust covid-19 vaccines in India, Novavax early Friday announced its interim phase-3 results showing that its protein subunit jabs have an efficacy of 89.3% against the novel coronavirus.More importantly, the efficacy results of the vaccine come from a trial in UK and South Africa, where two more transmissible strains are more prevalent, indicating that the vaccine provides protection against them.Also Read | Covid vaccination faces slow start“NVX-CoV2373 is the first vaccine to demonstrate not only high clinical efficacy against COVID-19 but also significant clinical efficacy against both the rapidly emerging UK and South Africa variants," Novavax president and chief executive

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UK variant, South Africa variant, Brazil variant: A guide to known coronavirus mutations

LOS ANGELES - As the novel coronavirus continues to claim the lives of Americans and people across the world, multiple coronavirus variants are now circulating around the globe, triggering alarm among scientists and health officials.Some of the primary of the variants emerged in the fall of 2020, complicating global efforts to combat the coronavirus and contributing to rapid spread in major metropolitan areas, including London and Los Angeles.There are many varied coronavirus strains circulating around the world, but health experts are primarily concerned with the emergence of three.As a virus infects people, it can mutate as it makes copies of itself. Some mutations can be harmful to a virus, causing it to die out.

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U.S. identifies first case of South Africa coronavirus variant

coronavirus emerged Thursday in the United States, posing yet another public health challenge in a country already losing more than 3,000 people to COVID-19 every day.The mutated version of the virus, first identified in South Africa, was found in two cases in South Carolina. Public health officials said it’s almost certain that there are more infections that have not been identified yet.

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Novavax vaccine delivers 89% efficacy against COVID-19 in UK—but is less potent in South Africa

Meredith WadmanScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.The small biotech firm Novavax, once considered a dark horse in the COVID-19 vaccine race, announced today that its candidate delivered high efficacy—89.3%—in a pivotal trial in the United Kingdom where a new, highly transmissible variant of the pandemic coronavirus accounted for more than half of the cases in people in the trial.“These are spectacular results,” Clive Dix, chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, said about the results from the trial, which enrolled more than 15,000 people.

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South African COVID variant detected in South Carolina

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed the first US cases of B1.351, a variant of COVID-19 first discovered in South Africa, in South Carolina.

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New Covid vaccine demonstrates '89% efficacy'

An experimental Covid-19 vaccine appears to offer strong protection in late-stage UK and South Africa studies, said manufacturer Novavax.

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UK study finds Novavax vaccine 89% effective against COVID-19

LONDON (AP) - Novavax Inc. said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89% effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to work — though not quite as well — against new mutated strains of the virus circulating in that country and South Africa.The announcement comes amid worry about whether a variety of vaccines being rolled out around the world will be strong enough to protect against worrisome new variants – and also the world needs new types of shoots to boost scarce supplies.The study of 15,000 people in Britain is still underway.

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Novavax coronavirus vaccine 1st to be effective against U.K, South Africa variants: study

COVID-19 vaccine is the first to show significant results on protecting against the U.K. and South Africa coronavirus variants.In an announcement Thursday, the biotech company said its treatment was 89.3 per cent effective at protecting 15,000 participants involved in a late-stage U.K.

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Novavax vaccine seems effective against COVID-19 in UK study

Novavax Inc. said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89% effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to work — though not quite as well — against new mutated strains of the virus circulating in that country and South Africa.

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Virus variant from South Africa detected in US for 1st time

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa has been found in the United States for the first time, with two cases diagnosed in South Carolina, state health officials said Thursday.

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Coronavirus variant from South Africa detected in US for 1st time

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa has been found in the United States for the first time, with two cases diagnosed in South Carolina, state health officials said Thursday.The two cases don't appear to be connected, nor do the people have a history of recent travel, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control said."That’s frightening," because it means there could be more undetected cases within the state, said Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious diseases physician at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

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Africa secures another 400 million COVID-19 vaccine doses

NAIROBI – Another 400 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been secured for the African continent through the Serum Institute of India, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

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Pfizer finds South African variant has 'small effect' on effectiveness of vaccine

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine appeared to lose only a small bit of effectiveness against an engineered virus with three key mutations from the new coronavirus variant found in South Africa, according to a laboratory study conducted by the US drugmaker.

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Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine works against UK, South Africa variants: Report

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3 new cases of COVID-19 at the border and an update on border-related cases in Auckland

Whole genome sequencing carried out overnight has confirmed the two border-related COVID-19 cases that were reported out of cycle last night are observed to be variant 20C/501Y.V2 (lineage B.1.351), first identified in South Africa.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0