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New Covid-19 variant triggers global alarm as WHO urges caution

A lab technician performs a step in the testing procedure to investigate a new strain of Covid-19. [Reuters]

Global authorities reacted with alarm on Friday to a new coronavirus variant detected in South Africa, with the EU and Britain among those tightening border controls as researchers sought to find out if the mutation was vaccine-resistant. 

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