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JOHANNESBURG: No tickets will be sold to the general public for the forthcoming Test and one day international (ODI) series between South Africa and India because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on…

"GET BOOSTED NOW. Tidal wave of Omicron likely coming to a hospital near you soon," Dr Tom Frieden, former chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), posted on Twitter. Preliminary data in South Africa suggests Omicron…

Canada’s COVID-19 cases skyrocketed in the last week as the Omicron variant has rapidly spread across the country, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam said Friday. Canada has averaged more than 5,000 new COVID-19 cases…

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's health minister said on Friday (Dec 17) that the government believed that vaccines and high levels of prior COVID-19 infection were helping to keep disease milder in a wave driven by the Omicron variant. There…

TORONTO: Canada will start recognising molecular COVID-19 tests conducted at an accredited lab in South Africa for residents returning home, dropping a heavily criticised travel restriction introduced to prevent the spread of the Omicron…

CES 2022 will be held from January 5, 2022 to January 8, 2022.More than 1,900 companies have committed to attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, about half the pre-pandemic level.Reuters Last Updated:December 11,…

Greeks over 60 who refuse coronavirus vaccinations could be hit with monthly fines of more than one-quarter of their minimum pensions — a get-tough policy that the country’s politicians say will cost votes but save lives. Weekly…

Although some states have tightened domestic border controls, the federal government is hoping to avoid a return to stop-start lockdowns. Even so, it has postponed by two weeks a plan to let foreign students and skilled migrants into the…

New findings about the coronavirus’s Omicron variant made it clear Tuesday that the emerging threat slipped into countries before their defenses were up, as two distant nations announced their first cases and a third reported…

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos attended an urgent meeting of G7 health ministers Monday to discuss the emergence of the highly mutated Omicron variant of COVID-19. The new variant appeared in South Africa, coinciding with an…