The new scientific crew will aim to keep the public updated on the pandemic and future outbreaks

A federal judge in Florida on Monday ruled that the 14-month-old directive was unlawful, overturning a White House effort to reduce COVID spread

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa estimated that last week’s catastrophic flooding displaced more than 40,000 people and hundreds have died

A new variant of COVID-19 discovered in Botswana is believed to be a mutation of the omicron variant first detected in southern Africa late last year