Pakistan and Bangladesh are put on the travel ‘red list’ sparking fears thousands of Brits abroad will scramble home as UK variant is blamed for countries’ third spike Travellers will be banned from these countries unless they are returning home Crackdown is aimed at reducing the risk of variants such as South Africa strain More … Read more
Scientists say they have created a new, portable test that can detect coronavirus in just minutes and even identify if it is a highly infectious variant. Developed by the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, in La Jolla, California, the test is called NIRVANA (nanopore sequencing of isothermal rapid viral amplification for near real-time analysis). The … Read more
Pfizer‘s Covid vaccine still works against the South African and Brazilian variants of the virus, studies suggested today. The jab prevented 100 per cent of infections in a study run by Pfizer in South Africa and UK lab tests on the P1 Brazilian strain of the virus found it worked against that. Scientists had been … Read more
From a sea eagle hitting a fox with its wings after it entered the bird of prey’s territory to a young European shag sticking its head into its mother’s mouth to feed, this incredible array of images showcases the work of some of the world’s finest photographers. The stunning pictures were taken by the finalists of … Read more
New York health officials are worried that some coronavirus variants will reinfect people who have had COVID-19 before. At a press conference on Tuesday, Dr Dave Chokshi, the city’s health commissioner, said that reinfection appears to be rare. However, he noted that the coronavirus variants that were first identified in South Africa and Brazil have … Read more
The Great Oxidation Event that saw oxygen levels surge and life flourish on Earth happened 100 million years later than previously thoughts, researchers claim. University of Leeds experts analysed rocks from South Africa that were deposited in the ocean at the time of the Great Oxidation Event more than two billion years ago. This event … Read more
A British expat has discovered hundreds of stranded ‘evil-eyed’ pufferfish washed up on a beach in South Africa. The ‘evil-eyed’ pufferfish are each armed with a poison more deadly than cyanide. Tess Gridley, a scientist from Sheffield, encountered the mass stranding at Muizenberg Beach in Cape Town, South Africa, while walking with her family. The ‘evil-eyed’ pufferfish, … Read more
British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa is BACK ON with organisers ploughing ahead with games likely behind closed doors despite Covid variant fears, after the Government refuse to financially back home Tests The British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa is set to go ahead this summer The Lions are set to … Read more
Backlash against Big Bang Theory producer Chuck Lorre’s ‘offensive’ new CBS comedy after casting non-Afghan actor to play Afghan military interpreter The backlash against The United States of Al centers on the casting of a non-Afghan actor Adhir Kalyan in the lead role of the military interpreter Kalyan was born in South Africa and is … Read more
South African apartheid-era president FW de Klerk is diagnosed with cancer Frederik Willem de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, has cancer His foundation announced the news Friday, a day after his 85th birthday His heath is not in ‘immediate’ danger and he is undergoing treatment De Klerk released Mandela from jail and helped oversee … Read more