id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5950 Portal:Current events - Wikipedia .html text/html 8791 1094 66 South Carolina reports their first case of the B.1.1.7 variant first detected in the United Kingdom in an adult from the Pee Dee region and has an international travel history. Prime Minister Jean Castex announces the closure of borders to all travellers outside the European Union beginning January 31 in order to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants and avoid a third lockdown. South Carolina reports the United States's first two cases of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa in people with no known travel history. Brazil surpasses nine million cases of COVID-19, becoming the third country to do so after India and the United States. Vaccine developer Novavax announces that their vaccine candidate is 89% effective in preventing severe COVID-19, based on trial data from the United Kingdom; their vaccine was less effective against new variants of the virus, based on data from South Africa. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5950.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5950.txt