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World
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International
1/23/2022 6:46:10 PM
Police fired water cannons and thick clouds of tear gas in Brussels on Sunday to disperse demonstrators protesting against COVID-19 vaccinations and restrictions that aim to curb the fast-spreading omicron variant.
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World
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International
1/22/2022 7:00:17 PM
Food banks across the country are experiencing a critical shortage of volunteers as the omicron variant frightens people away from their usual shifts, and companies and schools that regularly supply large groups of volunteers are canceling their participation over virus fears.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/22/2022 3:59:30 PM
Three studies released Friday offered more evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are standing up to the omicron variant, at least among people who received booster shots
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Life & Style
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Health
1/22/2022 3:57:30 PM
Health experts suggest stepping up protection against the highly contagious omicron variant with stronger masks such as N95s or KN95s.
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World
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International
1/21/2022 2:38:04 PM
Restaurants and bars will close early in Tokyo and a dozen other areas across Japan beginning Friday as the country widens COVID-19 restrictions due to the omicron variant causing cases to surge to new highs in metropolitan areas.
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Egypt
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Health
1/21/2022 12:19:54 AM
Egypt has announced new coronavirus-related restrictions at airports, seaports and land crossings, with the country witnessing a significant surge in daily infections and reporting the highly infectious Omicron as the dominant variant currently.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/20/2022 1:34:25 PM
Egypt is looking forward to cooperating with various United Nations (UN) bodies in its hosting of the Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP27) this year, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly told a top an official of the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) on Wednesday.
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World
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International
1/19/2022 7:11:25 PM
The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to US residents starting next week, now that federal officials are emphasizing their better protection against the omicron variant of COVID-19 over cloth face coverings.
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Egypt
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Health
1/19/2022 4:18:33 PM
Anyone who is unvaccinated will not be allowed to enter government facilities in Egypt, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said during the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, stressing the importance of enforcing this decision.
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World
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International
1/18/2022 10:50:26 PM
The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the US are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides in mid-March.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
1/18/2022 9:11:49 PM
The fast-spreading Omicron variant of Covid-19 is adding to the burdens that the pandemic has been placing on people’s lives.
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World
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International
1/18/2022 12:30:03 PM
Japan's government is preparing social restrictions in Tokyo and other regions as the omicron variant of the coronavirus infects more people.
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Egypt
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Health
1/17/2022 10:56:14 PM
The highly infectious coronavirus variant Omicron is responsible for the “vast majority” of coronavirus cases in Egypt, Presidential Adviser for Health Affairs Mohamed Awad Tag El-Din said on Monday.
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World
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International
1/17/2022 7:45:10 PM
The coronavirus' omicron variant starting to barrel across South America is pressuring hospitals whose employees are taking sick leave, leaving facilities understaffed to cope with COVID-19's third wave.
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World
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International
1/16/2022 5:30:53 PM
A World Health Organization official warned last week of a ``closing window of opportunity'' for European countries to prevent their health care systems from being overwhelmed as the omicron variant produces near-vertical growth in coronavirus infections.
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Egypt
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Society
1/16/2022 1:39:11 PM
The Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) has warned that Greater Cairo, Sinai and the western coasts are expected to see moderate to light intermittent rains throughout Sunday, with cold weather during the day expected to be very cold at night nationwide.
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World
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International
1/15/2022 6:10:27 PM
An Omicron case has been detected in Beijing, officials in the Chinese capital said Saturday, as the country battles multiple outbreaks of the highly transmissible coronavirus variant ahead of the Winter Olympics.
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World
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International
1/15/2022 5:38:09 PM
Get ready to learn more Greek letters. Scientists warn that omicron's whirlwind advance practically ensures it won't be the last version of the coronavirus to worry the world.
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World
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International
1/14/2022 6:04:38 PM
The Russian government on Friday chose to delay adopting unpopular legislation restricting access to public places for the unvaccinated, despite an infection surge and warnings from top officials about the spread of the omicron variant.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/12/2022 9:37:10 PM
It's not yet clear, but some early data suggests people might become contagious sooner than with earlier variants _ possibly within a day after infection.
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