Brazil’s health care system is collapsing under a new strain of Covid-19 As Covid-19 cases and deaths pile up in Brazil, scientists have discovered a new strain of the coronavirus there - one that could potentially be more contagious and lethal. Matt Rivers is in Iranduba and Manaus where hospitals are out of oxygen and ventilators, and rows and rows of graves are being dug every day. https://cnn.it/3cltGVc | CNN

23K views · 172 reactions | A surge of COVID-19 cases in southern England may be associated with a new variant of coronavirus, said U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock. Hancock stressed there was nothing to suggest it was more likely to cause serious disease, or that it wouldn’t respond to a vaccine. | CBC News | Facebook

436K views · 5.3K reactions | The World Health Organization is meeting to assess the implications of a new coronavirus variant, B.1.1.529, first identified in South Africa. The European Union, the U.K. and other countries are moving to stop air travel from southern Africa. | CBC News | Facebook