FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker receives the Johnson and Johnson coronavirus disease vaccination at Khayelitsha Hospital near Cape Town, South Africa, February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Mike HutchingsCAPE TOWN: South Africa's health ministry said on Saturday it had detected the first four cases of a new coronavirus variant that emerged in India and was responsible for a surge of infections and deaths in the Asian country.
Testing had also picked up 11 cases of the variant B.1.1.7 first detected in the UK, the health ministry said in a statement.
And there it is. Count on US to also provide their variants from New York, Florida, and Texas to the rest of the world.
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