By Gwynne Dyer – The new Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus was discovered last week by scientists in South Africa and Botswana, the only countries in southern Africa that have the skills and ...

South African health authorities have agreed to lift a midnight curfew after the number of omicron cases of COVID-19 was beginning to slow down, it was reported Thursday. South Africa is the ...

Dr Angelique Coetzee, the South African doctor who first spotted the new Covid variant Omicron, says the patients ... BBC's Andrew Marr how patients in South Africa have told her they've been ...

An infectious disease expert from South Africa, where scientists first identified Omicron, said it was too early to say whether symptoms were more severe than previous variants, but the variant ...

South Korea is extending measures to guard against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus for another four weeks. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Wednesday that short-term ...

The country’s omicron caseload is now at nine after ... foreign travelers arriving from nine African nations, including South Africa and Nigeria.