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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled on Saturday new measures to try to stop the spread of a new coronavirus variant called Omicron, saying all arrivals would have to take a test and it was time to step up booster jabs.…

South Africa said on Saturday it was being punished for its advanced ability to detect new COVID-19 variants early, as travel bans and restrictions imposed because of the new Omicron variant threaten to harm tourism and other…

Police fired tear gas in Burkina Faso's capital on Saturday during a demonstration against the government's failure to stop a wave of violence by Islamist militants. Opponents of President Roch Kabore called for renewed…

Britain should cut the gap between the second dose of a COVID-19 vaccination and the booster jab from six to five months, Britain’s main opposition Labour Party said. “This new variant is a wake-up call." Labour’s junior health…

 Global health adviser and a lecturer at teaching fellow at University College London’s School of Pharmacy,  Oksana Pyzik, says, vaccine inequality will likely lead to more coronavirus variants as the pandemic is prolonged, and that a…

Suspected Omicron case found in Germany A minister in the German state of Hesse said that the Omicron COVID variant had very probably arrived in Germany. “Last night several Omicron-typical mutations were found in a…

Sixty-one people who arrived in Amsterdam on two flights from South Africa have tested positive for Covid-19, Dutch officials say. They have been placed in isolation at a hotel near Schiphol airport. They were among some 600…

US joins EU in restricting flights from southern Africa due to new coronavirus variant. The World Health Organization, WHO, earlier declared the new variant to be "of concern," naming it Omicron. From Monday, only US…

The Ethiopian government has announced new restrictions on reporting the war, in which Tigrayan rebels are said to be continuing their advance towards the capital. In a warning to news outlets and social media users, it has…

A Kenyan lawyer has filed a petition challenging the health minister's directive to bar unvaccinated Kenyans from accessing basic services from 21 December. It comes amid record turnout for vaccination in different parts of the…