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28.01.2021 / 05:09

What are the new COVID-19 variants and can Manitoba keep them away?

COVID-19 variant in the province, a Winnipeg epidemiologist says people should be on high alert.Cynthia Carr, founder of EPI Research, said while it’s not helpful to scare anyone, she is encouraging Manitobans to stay vigilant, even if they’re feeling fatigued.“The challenge is that the variant didn’t change to be more noticeable,” Carr said.The new COVID-19 variants, first discovered in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil, appear to be up to 70 per cent more transmissible.

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New Zealand confirms two more Covid-19 cases in the community

New Zealand has confirmed two new cases of the more virulent South African Covid-19 strain in the community, as investigators scrambled to determine how the virus breached border controls.

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Vaccine 2.0: Moderna and other companies plan tweaks that would protect against new coronavirus mutations

Kai KupferschmidtScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.News from U.S. manufacturer Moderna that its COVID-19 vaccine is still “expected to be protective” against a virus variant first detected in South Africa came as a relief to scientists and the public.

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New Covid measures do not go far enough - opposition

A number of opposition parties have claimed that the latest Covid-19 restrictions do not go far enough and only a 14-day mandatory quarantine regime for all incoming passengers will be effective.

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Covid vaccine: Pfizer working on booster shot to protect against corona variant

booster shots that can protect against various coronavirus mutations, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.“Every time a new variant comes up we should be able to test whether or not [our vaccine] is effective," Pfizer Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said."Once we discover something that it is not as effective, we will very, very quickly be able to produce a booster dose that will be a small variation to the current vaccine," he added.Also Read | The Indian-Americans driving Biden’s agendaBourla’s comments follow news that Moderna is working on a similar booster shot.

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Love appointed captain again, this time for Presidents Cup

Davis Love III is going back to where he was born for a job he knows as well as anyone.

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South Africa's president criticizes 'vaccine nationalism'

JOHANNESBURG – South African president and African Union chairman Cyril Ramaphosa has called on richer nations to release surplus vaccine doses to the rest of the world.

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Johnson to rule on plans for UK quarantine hotels

Boris Johnson is expected to approve plans to force some travellers arriving to the UK to quarantine in hotels to limit the spread of new coronavirus variants.

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Alberta releases modelling data related to new variants of novel coronavirus

Alberta health minister Tyler Shandro released modelling data related to new variants of the novel coronavirus first identified in the United Kingdom and South Africa.

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Wide US travel restrictions aim to limit COVID-19 variants

The United States will enact strict travel bans beginning today to limit foreign travelers who may be infected with variant strains of COVID-19, almost 1 year after the country banned travelers from China.

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SFU researchers warn COVID-19 U.K. variant could lead to ‘massive virus spread’ in B.C.

Simon Fraser University are warning a huge spike of COVID-19 cases could be coming to British Columbia if the U.K. variant of the virus is established here.In a report released on Monday, Elisha Are and Caroline Colijn looked at the exponential growth of the virus linked to the strain.

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Moderna Covid jab 'works effectively against South Africa and UK variants of virus'

coronavirus vaccine is effective against the new variants discovered in South Africa and the UK. The biotechnology company conducted tests on the vaccine against the emerging strains of the virus.Research found that the variants had “showed no significant impact” on the neutralising properties of the vaccine.

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South African coronavirus variant may be more deadly, SAGE experts admit

The South African coronavirus variant may be more deadly, according to SAGE experts.

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Moderna says COVID-19 vaccine appears effective against new variants, working on booster shot as precaution

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Moderna announced Monday that its current COVID-19 vaccine appears to work against two highly-transmissible coronavirus variants first detected in the U.K. and South Africa.

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Covid vaccine effective against UK, South Africa variants: Moderna

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Moderna says vaccine appears to protect against COVID-19 variants

Moderna Inc. said on Monday its COVID-19 vaccine produced virus-neutralizing antibodies in laboratory tests against new coronavirus variants found in the UK and South Africa.A two-dose regimen of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be protective against emerging strains detected to date, the company said.

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UPDATES: Fauci says prep on vaccine variant upgrade underway

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci says scientists are already preparing to upgrade COVID-19 vaccines to address the variants of the coronavirus now circulating in the United Kingdom and South Africa.

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President Biden to reinstate COVID-19 travel rules

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Monday will formally reinstate COVID-19 travel restrictions on non-U.S. travelers from Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom and 26 other European countries that allow travel across open borders, according to two White House officials.

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Borders tighten around world as coronavirus curfew fury spills over

Netherlands.The United States was set to join France, Israel and Sweden in pulling up the drawbridge to certain arrivals, with special concern about new strains of the pathogen that originated in Britain and South Africa."It's up to us to show that we are civic-minded," Spaniard Claudio Barraza told AFP upon arrival at Paris's main international airport, after new rules on tests for EU arrivals came into force.The stipulations came as Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador became the latest public figure to test positive for the disease, and New Zealand reported its first community case for more than two months.In Washington, President Joe Biden will on Monday reimpose a ban on most non-US citizens who have been in Britain, Brazil,

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Covid sub-committee to meet over maintaining restrictions

The Government Covid-19 sub-committee will meet today in advance of an expected decision tomorrow to keep the current public health restrictions in place next month.

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Biden to reinstate US Covid travel bans

US President Joe Biden will reimpose a Covid-19 travel ban on most non-US citizens who have been in Ireland, Britain, Brazil, and much of Europe, a White House official said, as the new administration ramps up its pandemic response.

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Borders tightened as Dutch lockdown anger spills over

Border restrictions are being tightened around the world today in the face of an unrelenting coronavirus threat.

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Vaccines may not work as well on variants, UK health minister says

U.K.’s health minister warned that coronavirus vaccines may be less effective against new variants of the disease, such as those found in South Africa and Brazil, and that stricter border controls are justified.“We don’t know the degree of that," Matt Hancock said in an interview on Sky News on Sunday, commenting on the extent of any potential reduced efficacy of the vaccines. “In the meantime, we’ve got to have a precautionary principle that says let’s not bring these new variants back to the U.K."Also Read | Revenge of the lambs at the GabbatoirHancock’s warning came as the U.K.

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Biden to reinstate COVID-19 travel rules

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 22: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event on economic crisis in the State Dining Room of the White House January 22, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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US President Joe Biden 'to bring back UK travel ban' to stop Covid variant spreading

The US is set to hit the UK with a travel ban following the discovery of the mutant Kent Covid strain, according to reports.

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Biden to reinstate COVID travel rules, add South Africa

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Monday will formally reinstate COVID-19 travel restrictions on non-U.S.

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Coronavirus: Fauci says vaccines offer ‘best protection’ against evolution of virus

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke Sunday about the importance of vaccinating people against COVID-19 during an interview on CBS’ Face the Nation.

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UK has 77 South African Covid variant cases, 9 of Brazilian, says Matt Hancock

coronavirus had been found in the United Kingdom, all of them connected to travel from South Africa and under close observation.The UK minister has also said that there was a very low number of cases of the Brazilian variant, nine at the latest count, and those were also being closely monitored."There are 77 known cases of the South African variant here in the UK," Hancock was quoted by Reuters as saying."They are under very close observation, and we have enhanced contact tracing to do everything we possibly can to stop them from spreading," the minister said, adding that all the known cases were people who had travelled from South Africa or had contact with someone else who had done so.Meanwhile, the British government has extended

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Covid-19 vaccines may work less well on variants: UK health minister Hancock

The UK’s health minister warned that coronavirus vaccines may be less effective against new variants of the disease, such as those found in South Africa and Brazil, which justifies stricter border controls.“We don’t know the degree of that," Matt Hancock said in an interview on Sky News on Sunday, commenting on the extent of any potential reduced efficacy of the vaccines. “In the meantime, we’ve got to have a precautionary principle that says let’s not bring these new variants back to the UK"Hancock’s warning came as the UK reported it had vaccinated more than 5 million people, including three-quarters of over 80s.

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8 cases of COVID-19 in 2 days in managed isolation

There are 8 cases of COVID-19 in managed isolation to report in New Zealand since our last media statement on Friday.

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Sir Elton John's sadness at coronavirus death of his South African doctor friend

Sir Elton John is mourning the Covid death of a pioneering children’s HIV doctor who he met in South Africa.

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South Africa authorities approve Serum Institute of India's COVID-19 vaccine

Johannesburg: South Africa's health regulatory body has granted approval to the world's largest drug manufacturer Serum Institute of India (SII) to supply COVID-19 vaccine to the country.Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced on Friday that the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has granted approval to the SII, which is producing the vaccine in collaboration with the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, to supply the drug to the country.The approval comes amid growing concerns that the 1.5 million vaccine doses to be shipped to South Africa in the next few weeks had not been approved by the local regulator.“We will, in the next coming days, engage with the public in order to give an update on the progress of the

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COVID-19: Number of U.K. variant cases in B.C. climbs to 6, South Africa variant to 3

COVID-19 variants in British Columbia climbed again on Friday.Health officials said they had confirmed six cases of the U.K. variant (B.1.1.7), and three cases of the South African variant (B.1.351).

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India begins commercial shipments of covid shots

covid-19 vaccines to developing countries like Morocco and Brazil.They come on top of shipments to neighbouring countries that buttress India’s position as the first responder in times of crises in South Asia.Foreign ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava told reporters in New Delhi that contractual supplies are being shipped to Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Brazil and Morocco. Additional vaccines will also be exported to Bangladesh and Myanmar besides the consignments already sent to them as grants or gifts.“Keeping in view the domestic requirements of the phased rollout, India will continue to supply covid-19 vaccines to partner countries over the coming weeks and months in a phased manner.

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COVID-19 variant found in Brazil, South Africa could pose higher reinfection risk, study suggests

study authors wrote.Researchers explained that the new variant was identified circulating throughout Brazil and had been detected in a case of reinfection in Salvador, a city over 3,000 miles south of Manaus.The identification of the new and highly-transmissible variant of the deadly coronavirus in Manaus was also the subject of a separate study published in Science Magazine.Manaus was particularly hard-hit by the virus and "experienced one of the world’s most rapidly growing COVID-19 epidemics, with the Amazon being the worst hit region," according to the study."The first SARS-CoV-2 case in Manaus was confirmed on 13th March 2020 and was followed by an explosive epidemic, peaking in early May with 4.5-fold excess mortality," researchers

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Coronavirus: Questions swirl around what’s needed to achieve herd immunity

What to know about 2nd doses of COVID-19 vaccine in Alberta as shortages persist However, Saxinger said if it turns out the vaccine is time-limited, it will be important for people to get their booster shots to keep the level of population up.Complicating the issue are variants, such as the ones first identified in the United Kingdom and South Africa, that appear to be more transmissible. Both have been discovered in Alberta.Dr.

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Brazilian and South Africa Covid variants may be 'less susceptible' to vaccines

direct to your inboxThe Brazilian and South African coronavirus variants are of more concern than the UK strain, the UK's chief scientific advisor has warned.Sir Patrick Vallance said fears have been raised that those two variants may be 'less susceptible to vaccines'.Speaking at a Downing Street press conference on Friday afternoon, Sir Vallance said: "We know less about how much more transmissible they are."We are more concerned that they have certain features that they might be less susceptible to vaccines.“They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment, and we need to keep looking at it and studying it very carefully.”It comes after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said “there is evidence in the public domain”

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Covid vaccine less likely to work on mutant South African coronavirus strain

UK scientists are "more concerned" that the South African and Brazilian Covid-19 may be less susceptible to vaccines.

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South African Covid variant defeats plasma therapy, may reduce vaccine efficacy

South Africa can evade the antibodies that attack it in treatments using blood plasma from previously recovered patients, and may reduce the efficacy of the current line of vaccines, scientists said on Wednesday.Researchers are racing to establish whether the vaccines currently being rolled out across the globe are effective against the so-called 501Y.V2 variant, identified by South African genomics experts late last year in Nelson Mandela Bay."This lineage exhibits complete escape from three classes of therapeutically relevant monoclonal antibodies," the team of scientists from three South African universities working with the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) wrote in a paper in bioRxiv, a website that publishes

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Committee told more progress needed over virus transmission

Ireland's Deputy Chief Medical Officer has said that much more progress must be "achieved and sustained" over the coming weeks to bring the coronavirus under control.

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EU gravely concerned about Covid variants

EU leaders have expressed grave concern over the emergence of new variants of the coronavirus and their potential impact on the pandemic in Europe.

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COVID-19 variants could be spreading across Canada. Are labs doing enough to detect them?

COVID-19 variants in our country so far. Community spread of new COVID-19 variants may be happening in Canada: Tam A highly contagious strain first detected in the U.K., South Africa or Brazil is suspected in a recent outbreak at a Barrie, Ont.

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Coronavirus: Fauci says vaccines work on ‘mutant’ variants, but there is plan to adjust if needed

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top advisor on COVID-19 to U.S.

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Officials looked at making airport arrivals wear electronic tags in leaked Covid plan

International arrivals could be forced to wear electronic tags for 10 days to make sure they strict to strict quarantine rules, under plans drawn up for Priti Patel.

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'Early indications' vaccine works on new variants of Covid, Matt Hancock tells MPs

direct to your inbox Matt Hancock told MPs that there are 'early indications' the coronavirus vaccine works on the new variants of the virus, Speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, the Health Secretary said that there are signs the Covid-19 vaccine deals with newer variants in the same way that it does the older variant of the virus.It comes after fears the variant, dubbed B.1.1.7, has mutations that may reduce the effectiveness of the vaccines designed to protect against the virus.Labour's Jonathan Ashworth asked Mr Hancock: "The new variants remind us we have to go further and faster on vaccination and work harder to break admission chains."Early analysis suggests the South African B-1351 variant brings a reinfection risk which

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Oxford working on vaccine versions to fight Covid 19 virus variants

The fear of flying at Mount 50KThe scientists were working on estimating how quickly they could reconfigure their ChAdOx vaccine platform, the report said."The team do not currently think they will need to, but it would be stupid not to be prepared," the source told The Telegraph.

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Where Alberta is at with testing for COVID-19 variants

We’ve heard experts say it’s normal for viruses to change or mutate. In Alberta, variants of COVID-19 from the U.K.

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Update on UK and SA variants in managed isolation

Whole genome sequencing has identified 11 samples of B.1.1.7 (known as the UK variant) and 6 samples of B.1.3.5.1 (known as the South Africa variant) since 6 January, as well as a number of other previously identified strains.

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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