South Africa: New Covid strain believed to be driving infections

We get Covid-19 updates from the continent’s worst-hit country South Africa, where a new strain is believed to be responsible for an increase in infections, and from Nigeria, where case numbers have spiked.

Plus, reaction to chaotic scenes at the US Capitol in Washington DC from Kenyan satirist Patrick Gathara.

And the Gambian King of Kora, Jaliba Kuyateh, on why he recorded a track to take on the phenomenon of cyber bullying.

(Photo: A passenger is tested for Covid-19 at O.R Tambo International Airport; Credit: LUCA SOLA/AFP via Getty Images)