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The US will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other nearby countries beginning next week, as fears grow over the new variant.

Worried about the latest COVID variant emerging from South Africa this week? Here's everything you need to know about it for now.

The US State Department on Saturday formally warned Americans against traveling to South Africa and seven of its neighbors for fear of the new COVID-19 Omicron variant.

The world is in a "race against time" with the Omicron coronavirus variant, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday, warning during a visit to Riga that scientists and manufacturers will need weeks to fully understand the...

The White House chief medical adviser said several concerning mutations have been identified in the variant, which was first discovered in South Africa by scientists.

Both cases were reported in the province of Ontario with individuals who had recently traveled to Africa.

A new COVID-19 variant, reported from sub-Saharan Africa on Wednesday, has caused many developed countries to halt travel from that region without delay.

Omicron, the newest coronavirus variant, was also the quickest to be labeled a "variant of concern" by the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because of its seemingly fast spread in South Africa and its...

Omicron already appears to be "much more infectious" than the Delta variant and is on track to become the most dominant strain in southern Africa in a matter of weeks.

Africa has the lowest rate of internet connectivity of any region in the world. But that also means it has the highest potential for new growth.

Just as many countries around the world were beginning to loosen their border restrictions, reports of a newly detected coronavirus variant in South Africa sent many of those doors slamming shut again.

Dr. Anthony Fauci talks with Jake Tapper about the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and working with health officials in South Africa.

An American family stuck in Johannesburg, South Africa, amid new Covid-19 travel restrictions talk about their experience in trying to get back home.

Dr. Angelique Coetzee, one of the first doctors in South Africa treating Omicron patients, joins New Day to discuss the severity and symptoms she is seeing in patients with the latest Covid-19 variant.

As soon as South Africa announced the spread of a new and troubling variant last week, scientists went to work.

The Covid-19 Omicron variant was present in the Netherlands a week before two flights arrived from South Africa carrying the virus, Dutch health officials said Tuesday, throwing the timeline of the variant's spread in Europe into question.