The current vaccines will still prevent severe illness and hospitalization. Since the emergence of several new COVID-19 variants across the globe, scientists have been racing to understand their ...

SINGAPORE — The South African COVID-19 variant, or the B.1.351 strain, has been detected in Singapore based on unofficial sources but the information has yet to be verified by authorities here, ...

A roller coaster of research has stoked concerns that a coronavirus variant first linked to South Africa could be resistant to vaccines and raise the bar for herd immunity. A roller coaster of ...

Britain’s health secretary on Monday warned that the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa is a "very significant problem" and poses more of a risk than others. Matt Hancock told BBC ...

The U.S. said Friday that it would restrict travel from South Africa and seven other countries amid fears that a newly-discovered COVID-19 variant could lead to a surge of worldwide cases and deaths.

Two cases of the South African coronavirus variant have been discovered in the Bay Area. A Santa Clara County adult, one of the people infected, had traveled internationally and quarantined for 10 ...

A worker is seen at a coronavirus testing site in San Francisco in November. The city has had no known cases of the South Africa variant, but elsewhere in the Bay Area two cases have been recorded.