January 5, 2022

Even as the world is still grappling with the highly mutated Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus, a new Coronavirus variant identified as IHU has emerged in France.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Scientists identified the new strain, B.1.640.2, at the institute IHU Méditerranée Infection in Marseille.

This is coming just a few days after Israel reported its first case of rare double infection of COVID and Influenza, Flurona. France has already reported at least 12 cases of this variant, which researchers believe contains 46 mutations, more than Omicron. The new variant has been associated with Cameroun.

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No fewer than ten inmates and a police officer were confirmed dead during an attempt to escape from a Haitian prison, police sources have revealed.

“The toll that we have is eleven dead, including a police officer,” police spokesman Gary Desrosiers told AFP of the incident which took place Friday at Croix-des-Bouquets, just outside the Haitian capital.

Three more police officers were seriously injured and will need to be medically evacuated to Cuba, he added.

The incident began at midday Friday, when an unknown number of inmates, who had firearms, tried to break out of the country’s second-largest prison.

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