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Covid strain alert as scientists discover new South African variant
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:05:17
Publish Date: 2021-08-31 12:00:34
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Scientists have named the variant C.1.2, which they say is spreading with a concerning number of mutations. Internet addiction: young Chinese gamers are furious at Beijing’s tough new screen time rules. The Children’s Commissioner for England is calling for age verification to stop young eyes seeing explicit adult content. Salt substitute ‘could prevent thousands of strokes and heart attacks’. Can dogs give an early epileptic seizure warning by change in owner’s smell? Child mental health: actor Stephen Fry calls for walk-in centres for Mind charity appeal. British pigeons are ‘mistaking Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite dishes for bird baths’. 

 

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