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UK raises alarm over new COVID-19 variant that could beat vaccines

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London | Britain says it is concerned by a newly identified coronavirus variant spreading in South Africa that might make vaccines less effective and imperil progress made across the world in fighting the pandemic.

The UK will temporarily ban flights from South Africa and five other African countries over worries about the new, dramatically different COVID-19 variant recently identified in the region.

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