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Record numbers of new Covid-19 cases, critical cases and deaths in South Korea, the new reality of 'living with Covid' and Omicron's discovery in South Africa are threatening the country's road to recovery. The health system is stretched to the limit...

30 rhinos were moved from South Africa to Rwanda in the largest ever transfer of the species. The near-threatened species are primarily targeted by poachers for their horns. CNN's Zain Asher reports.

When South African officials sounded the alarm on the new Omicron variant last Thursday, stocks around the world tumbled and up to 70 countries, including the United States, imposed travel bans and restrictions to southern African countries.

CNN's David McKenzie was granted access to the WITS Vita lab in South Africa where they are studying the Omicron variant of Covid-19. This latest variant of the coronavirus pandemic was discovered in South Africa and is leading to an increase in...

The directive requires airlines to turn over names and contact information for all travelers who have been to Botswana, Eswatini, and other African countries in the past 14 days.

Dr. Fauci defended the restrictions on travel to the US from eight nations in southern Africa after confirming the first case of the Omicron variant in the US.

In the early days of November, laboratory technicians at Lancet Laboratories in Pretoria, South Africa, found unusual features in samples they were testing for the coronavirus.

A person who traveled to LAX from South Africa before Thanksgiving tested positive for the new COVID mutation, Los Angeles County officials announced Thursday.

On November 24, the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa identified a new coronavirus variant of concern, dubbed Omicron. Since the variant's initial identification in South Africa, it has been discovered in a number of countries spanning...

White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeffrey Zients is set to announce the Biden administration is shipping 11 million vaccines doses abroad on Friday, with 9 million going to Africa and another 2 million to other countries around the world,...

The "highly transmissible" Omicron variant of COVID-19 has disproportionately hospitalized kids under age 5 as it tears through South Africa, health officials in the country said Friday.

New Jersey officials announced the state’s first confirmed case of the COVID-19 variant Omicron on Friday in a woman who had recently traveled to South Africa. The patient, a fully-vaccinated Georgia resident, tested positive on Nov. 28 and has...

African leaders are hitting back against travel bans imposed over the Omicron variant, accusing wealthy countries of being hypocrites for delivering new restrictions instead of the vaccine doses the continent desperately needs.

More than 600 passengers traveling on the flights from Johannesburg and Cape Town were tested for COVID-19.

Monaco insiders are talking about the life-changing similarity between icy blondes Princess Charlotte and her mother-in-law, Princess Grace: namely, a deep unhappiness.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said the restrictions to South Africa, where the variant first was detected, and seven other countries were a preemptive measure.

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Dr. Angelique Coetzee, one of the first doctors in South Africa treating Omicron patients, shares numbers on the vaccination rate of those infected with the new variant.