NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa’s top public health official said Thursday, but he added that further investigation was needed.

Pharma giant Moderna’s (MRNA) shares surged as it said it is working on a new COVID-19 vaccine to tackle the strain found in South Africa. The announcement came even as it said its first vaccine ...

A high-ranking World Health Organization official flatly said, “Mpox is not the new COVID.’’ But with the discovery of new cases outside Africa as an emerging strain there appears more contagious, ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A new, potentially more infectious variant of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has been found in Britain in cases linked to South Africa, British Health Secretary Matt ...

On Friday, the World Health Organization categorized a new strain of COVID-19 that was recently detected in southern Africa as a "variant of concern." The WHO's Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus ...

What's believed to be a more contagious variant of the coronavirus from South Africa has now been detected in the U.S. According to South Carolina health officials, two cases have been identified in ...

The first case of the South African coronavirus variant has been found in North Carolina, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services. The first case of the South African ...

A new variant of the 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 ...