Stocks sink on new COVID variant; Dow Jones loses 890 points
Stocks sink on new COVID variant; Dow Jones loses 890 points
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell sharply Friday as a new highly transmissible coronavirus variant from South Africa appeared to be spreading across the globe, threatening months of progress at getting the pandemic under control.
Health officials in Europe and the U.K. moved quickly to propose suspending air travel from southern Africa. Meanwhile cases of the variant were found in…