South Africa has detected a new COVID-19 variant, AFP news agency reported quoting scientists.
Meanwhile, as Germany approaches the 100,000-death mark from COVID-19, the country’s leader-in-waiting on Wednesday called on an expert at the center of the next government to provide daily scientific advice on tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Announced plans to form the team.
At the start of a news conference, with Olaf Scholz of the centre-left Social Democrats creating a permanent emergency committee, his party and two others agreed to form a new government.
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