Brazil detects 1st case of South Africa COVID-19 variant as deaths skyrocket.
The detection of additional variants adds to concerns that a brutal COVID-19 wave battering Brazil may keep breaking grim records for weeks to come.
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P.1 variant is spreading in Canada. What do we know about it and vaccines?
The rapid spread of the P.1 variant in some parts of Canada has added new urgency to the race between variants and vaccines.
Brazil’s largest city begins exhuming old graves to make space for COVID-19 dead.
The variant first identified in Brazil -- P1 -- is also the variant in a cluster in Whistler, B.C., that prompted health authorities to shut down the ski resort on Monday.
‘Minefield’ of variants: How the California strain is different from the others.
The latest iteration of COVID-19 making waves is one first identified in California. The Western state is now teeming with the variant B.1.427/B.1.429.