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Novavax COVID vaccine highly effective, but not against S.Africa variant

Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 29 09:26 AM

WASHINGTON - US biotech firm Novavax said Thursday its two-shot COVID-19 vaccine showed an overall efficacy of 89.3 percent in a major Phase 3 clinical trial in Britain, and remained highly effective against a variant first identified there. Read more »

Budget woes mean South African doctors jobless, as hospitals battle COVID-19

Kirthana Pillay, Reuters
Posted at Jan 28 07:37 PM

Nearly 200 doctors, 325 nurses and 200 other health workers are unemployed, according to Hire our Medical Heroes, a campaign pressuring the government to take on more South African medical staff to tackle the pandemic. Read more »

Pfizer vaccine only slightly less effective against key S.African mutations -study

Reuters
Posted at Jan 28 08:27 AM

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine appeared to only lose a small bit of effectiveness against an engineered virus with three key mutations from the new variant found in South Africa, according to a laboratory study conducted by the US drugmaker. Read more »

Moderna says its vaccine will work against new COVID-19 variants

Reuters
Posted at Jan 26 12:45 AM

Moderna said on Monday it believes its COVID-19 vaccine protects against new variants found in Britain and South Africa, although it will test a new booster shot aimed at the South Africa variant after concluding that the antibody response could be diminished. Read more »

New COVID-19 variant defeats plasma treatment, may reduce vaccine efficacy: scientists

Reuters
Posted at Jan 21 04:53 AM

JOHANNESBURG - The new COVID-19 variant identified in South Africa can evade the antibodies that attack it in treatments using blood plasma from previously recovered patients, and may reduce the efficacy of the current line of vaccines, scientists said on Wednesday. Read more »

South Africa virus strain more contagious, experts confirm

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 19 06:33 AM

A new variant of the coronavirus first identified in South Africa is more contagious than earlier versions, experts said on Monday, but there is no evidence that it is more deadly.  Read more »

Previous coronavirus infection may offer less protection from new variant

Tim Cocks and Alexander Winning, Reuters
Posted at Jan 19 04:07 AM

JOHANNESBURG - Previous infection with the coronavirus may offer less protection against the new variant first identified in South Africa, scientists said on Monday, although they hope that vaccines will still work. Read more »

Why coronavirus variants may lead to false negative test results

Reuters
Updated as of Jan 09 04:40 AM

Genetic variants of the novel coronavirus, including the one found in UK, could impact the performance of some molecular COVID-19 tests and lead to false negative results, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Friday. Read more »

PH gov’t now monitoring 3 new COVID-19 variants

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 08 12:05 PM

MANILA — The Department of Health on Friday announced that it is now checking if 3 new COVID-19 variants, including the United Kingdom variant, have entered the Philippines.   Read more »

Motorsports: De Villiers wins Dakar fifth stage, Peterhansel extends lead

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 07 10:06 PM

South African Giniel De Villiers won Thursday's gruelling fifth stage of the Dakar Rally that left leading motorcyclist Kevin Benavides with a broken nose as he shattered his helmet jumping off a dune. Read more »

What we do and don't know about new COVID mutations

Amélie Bottollier-Depois, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 05 10:30 AM

The emergence in Britain and South Africa of two new variants of Sars-CoV-2, which are potentially far more infectious versions of the virus, has prompted widespread concern. Read more »

UK scientists reportedly worried vaccines ineffective on S.African coronavirus variant

Reuters
Posted at Jan 04 07:23 PM

Scientists are not fully confident that COVID-19 vaccines will work on a new variant of the coronavirus found in South Africa, ITV's political editor said on Monday, citing an unidentified scientific adviser to the British government. Read more »

COVID-19 variants: What the world knows so far

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 28 04:58 PM

Initial analysis indicates that the variant may spread more readily between people, with an estimated increase of between 40 percent and 70 percent in transmissibility. Read more »

South Africa counts more than 1 million virus cases

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 28 06:56 AM

South Africa has become the first African nation to record one million coronavirus cases, according to new data published by the country's health ministry on Sunday.  Read more »

Hong Kong imposes 21-day quarantine for visitors, adds South Africa to banned list

Reuters
Posted at Dec 25 12:22 PM

Hong Kong extended a compulsory quarantine by an extra 7 days to 21 days for all visitors outside China, effective Friday, in stepped-up efforts to prevent a new variant of the novel coronavirus from spreading.   Read more »

Palace to prod DOTr on ban vs travelers from UK over coronavirus variant

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 22 02:11 PM

Malacañang said on Tuesday it would prod the Department of Transportation over a possible ban on travelers from the United Kingdom where scientists have identified a new variant of the coronavirus that appears to be more contagious than, and genetically distinct from, more established variants.   Read more »

WHO says no need for major alarm over new coronavirus strain

Emma Farge and Michael Shields, Reuters
Posted at Dec 22 02:58 AM

GENEVA/ZURICH - The World Health Organization cautioned against major alarm over a new, highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in Britain, saying this was a normal part of a pandemic's evolution. Read more »

Countries bar South African flights over new COVID-19 variant

Reuters
Posted at Dec 21 10:56 PM

At least five countries and airlines, including Germany and Turkey, are reported to have banned flights from South Africa on Monday over the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus. Read more »

Boxing: Pinoy contender Jayson Mama’s world-title bout cancelled

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 18 01:01 PM

South Africa boxing officials alleged that Tono Promotions did not fulfill "basic requirements to enable BSA to sanction and give credibility to the event." Read more »

Milyun-milyong locusts, umatake sa bukirin sa South Africa

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 10 04:10 PM

Tila salot na gaya ng nasa Bible ang nangyari sa mahigit 100 farms sa South Africa nang atakihin sila ng milyun-milyong locusts o balang.    Read more »