Africa

In 2018, scientists embarked on an expedition to study the habitat of an endangered bat species in Guinea, West Africa. One night something unusual emerged in a trap: a new species of bat with a fiery orange body juxtaposed with striking…

Dave Ricks, chairman and CEO of Eli Lilly, told CNBC on Tuesday that he expected the company's Covid-19 antibody drug to be effective against the variant of coronavirus found in the UKHowever, he said the exposure observed in South Africa…

A patient with Covid-19 breathes oxygen on December 29, 2020 on the Covid-19 ward in Khayelitsha Hospital, about 35 km from central Cape Town.RODGER BOSCH | AFP | Getty ImagesA variant of the coronavirus identified in South Africa is more…