Belgium has confirmed its first case of the new South African coronavirus variant. According to Marc Van Ranst, whose laboratory works with Belgium’s public health institute Sciensano, the new strain was found in a traveller returning from Egypt.
Amid dramatically escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing, a delegation of five US legislators met with the top Chinese Taipei leadership on Friday, despite a “blunt message” from China to call off the trip. The bipartisan group of legislators from the US House of Representatives, who arrived in the self-governing ...
