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Covid-19: WHO to hold emergency meeting on new variant

Scientists fear the variant - known as B.1.1.529 - could be more transmissible and better able to evade vaccines.

As news emerges of a highly transmissible Covid-19 variant in South Africa the UK has moved to impose travel restrictions.

The death toll following a Siberian mine explosion has continued to rise, as investigators make arrests in connection with the tragedy.

And the Mexican parents being targeted by criminal gangs after their children's nursery won a large cash prize in a national lottery.

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  • Fri 26 Nov 2021 07:06GMT