The World Health Organization [WHO] designated a new coronavirus strain detected in South Africa as a “variant of concern”, prompting countries around the world to impose travel restrictions amid fears over its potential spread. A WHO advisory panel on Friday said early evidence shows the new B.1.1529 variant, which it ...
Lebanon has detected its first case of the new variant of the coronavirus, which has been spreading rapidly in parts of Britain, on a flight arriving from London. In a tweet on Friday, caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hasan announced that a new variant of the Coronavirus was discovered on board ...