JOHANNESBURG — As the world grapples with the emergence of the new highly transmissible variant of COVID-19, worried scientists in South Africa — where omicron was first identified — are scrambling to combat its lightning spread across the country. In the space…

Kenya has received a donation of 834,130 doses of Pfizer vaccines from the US government. The vaccines arrived Friday evening were received by Ministry of Health officials led the Port Health Officer in charge at JKIA Benjamin Murkomen. US officials were led…

Japan will tighten restrictions on traveLlers from six African countries, after the discovery of a new COVID-19 variant in South Africa, the government’s top spokesman said yesterday. Starting today, travellers who have recently been to Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, or…