Global COVID tally climbs above 260 million as WHO meets to discuss new variant
The global tally for the coronavirus-borne illness climbed above 260 million on Friday, while the death toll edged above 5.18 million, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. continues to lead the world with a total of 48.1 million cases and 775,797 deaths. The U.S. is still averaging more than 1,000 deaths a day, according to a New York Times tracker, and cases and hospitalizations are rising again.
529, the new variant has been found in Botswana and Hong Kong in travelers from South Africa, he said. Now the U.K. government has banned flights from South Africa and five other southern African countries and will ask anyone who arrived from them recently to take a test, as scientists work to determine whether the new variant is resistant to the current vaccines.
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