JOHANNESBURG - Coronavirus cases are surging again in South Africa, and public health experts are monitoring the situation, eager to know what is driving the spike, what it says about immunity from previous infections and what its…
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By Zanele Mji and Lynsey Chutel CAPE TOWN— As a fire that gutted the country’s Parliament buildings was finally extinguished Tuesday (4) and a bedraggled suspect appeared in court, South Africans were struggling to understand whether the…
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By Zanele Mji and Lynsey Chutel CAPE TOWN — Prosecutors on Tuesday (4) charged a 49-year-old man from a Cape Town township with arson, theft, housebreaking and possession of explosives in connection with the fire that gutted South Africa’s…
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By Lynsey Chutel and Austin Ramzy CAPE TOWN — A large fire at South Africa’s Houses of Parliament on Sunday (2) sent flames and smoke billowing from rooftops and fire crews racing to save the historic structures. Officials said the fire…
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By Richard Pérez Peña  The heavily mutated new coronavirus variant was in Europe several days earlier than previously known, health officials said Tuesday (Nov 29), and the number of countries where it has been found increased to at least…
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By Nick Cumming Bruce GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday (29) that global risks posed by the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus were “very high,” despite significant questions about the variant itself. Still,…
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By Aurelien Breeden and Claire Moses AMSTERDAM - Dutch health officials said Sunday (28) they had found at least 13 cases of the omicron coronavirus variant among 61 infected passengers who had arrived in the Netherlands from South Africa…
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By Benjamin Mueller and Declan Walsh Nations in southern Africa protested bitterly Saturday (27) as more of the world’s wealthiest countries cut them off from travel, renewing a debate over border closures from the earliest days of the…
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By Apoorva Mandavilli Upending centuries of medical dogma, a team of South African researchers has found that breathing may be a bigger contributor to the spread of tuberculosis than coughing, the signature symptom. As much as 90% of TB…
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COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's first Test captain, who was hit with a 25-year ban for leading a rebel cricket team to South Africa in breach of an international boycott, died Monday (18), his colleagues said. Bandula Warnapura, 68, died of a…
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