Business
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Economy
3/14/2024 11:16:05 AM
Many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the poorest are not and a significant number are seeing their conditions deteriorate, the U.N. Development Program said late Wednesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
3/12/2024 8:22:49 PM
It is time to break from Joseph’s prophecy.
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Life & Style
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Health
3/12/2024 11:54:57 AM
A German man who deliberately got vaccinated for Covid-19 a whopping 217 times did not report any side effects from his many jabs, according to researchers studying possibly the "most vaccinated person in history."
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Business
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International
2/29/2024 6:36:25 PM
Europe's aviation industry is extending its bounceback from the Covid pandemic, as British Airways owner IAG and Franco-Dutch rival Air France-KLM posted bumper 2023 profits Thursday.
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Life & Style
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Health
2/12/2024 11:46:20 AM
Tens of millions of people across the world are thought to suffer from long COVID, but four years after the pandemic was declared this elusive condition still cannot be tested for—let alone treated.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/22/2024 12:37:04 PM
Winter is here, inflicting its usual array of symptoms — coughs, nasal congestion, fatigue and fever — and, this year, a new COVID-19 variant is dominating the scoreboard.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/20/2024 11:48:02 AM
Without COVID-19 vaccines, the cumulative death toll in Europe would have been around 4 million, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
1/2/2024 8:31:52 PM
A new Covid-19 variant has been detected in Egypt, reports Reem Leila
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Business
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Economy
12/31/2023 2:07:47 PM
The Egyptian government is set to continue improving wage levels in 2024 to alleviate the financial burdens faced by citizens since the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and amid subsequent geopolitical tensions, Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait said on Sunday.
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Egypt
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Health
12/28/2023 2:11:00 PM
Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population announced in a statement on Thursday the detection of the first two cases of the new Omicron coronavirus subvariant JN.1, following laboratory tests.
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World
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International
12/26/2023 4:00:10 PM
The head of the WHO said Tuesday the world needs to properly prepare for future pandemics after finally ending three years of Covid "crisis, pain and loss."
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Egypt
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Health
12/25/2023 10:56:46 AM
No cases of the Omicron coronavirus subvariant, known as JN.1, have been reported in Egypt so far, Mohamed Awad Tag El-Din, presidential adviser for health affairs, said in a TV comment on Sunday evening.
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Business
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Economy
11/28/2023 4:10:27 PM
The African Development Bank (AfDB) approved a $131 million loan to Egypt with the aim of bolstering the government’s efforts to stimulate the private sector and diversify its green development following the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
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Business
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Economy
10/12/2023 7:26:10 PM
Zambia has signed a debt deal with its foreign lenders, the IMF's chief announced Thursday, providing financial relief to the first African nation to default after the Covid pandemic.
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World
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International
10/2/2023 1:19:15 PM
Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines.
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Business
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Economy
9/13/2023 4:14:38 PM
The global debt to GDP ratio fell by 10 percent in 2022 to 238 percent from its 2021 level, yet total debt amounted to $235 trillion, $200 billion above the 2021 level, according to the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday.
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World
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International
9/13/2023 11:14:28 AM
The Covid-19 pandemic caused a sharp slowdown in the fight to end child poverty, with 333 million children still living in extreme poverty, according to a report published Wednesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
9/12/2023 8:15:47 PM
The Arab Regional Forum in Beirut is building on the development agenda set out at the Cairo Conference on Population and Development 30 years ago
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World
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International
9/6/2023 6:15:37 PM
The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned of "concerning trends" for Covid-19 ahead of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, calling for increased vaccinations and surveillance.
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World
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International
9/5/2023 9:16:37 PM
First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Monday but is experiencing only mild symptoms, her spokeswoman said.
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