Life & Style
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Health
11/20/2024 2:04:59 PM
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, director of the Department for Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Management at the World Health Organization (WHO), spoke to Ahram Online during her participation in the Seventh World Innovation Summit for Health in Doha about the lessons learned from COVID-19 and the need to be prepared for a next pandemic.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/26/2024 2:27:17 PM
At the COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, experts urged world leaders world to learn the lessons from the estimated seven million lives lost to COVID.
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Business
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Economy
10/16/2024 9:26:34 PM
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a survey of prospects and policies on Wednesday detailing a significant inflationary episode that has unfolded over the past three years, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are the key takeaways from the report:
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Business
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Economy
10/15/2024 7:29:13 PM
A global target of ending extreme poverty by 2030 is "out of reach," said the World Bank on Tuesday, adding it could take three decades or more to do so.
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Business
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Economy
10/2/2024 2:38:56 PM
Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly announced Tuesday that Egypt's economy recorded an average GDP growth of 4.3 percent over the past four years, demonstrating resilience amid a series of global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/25/2024 8:16:42 PM
Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they hope could allow them to trace the outbreak back to its source.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/25/2024 11:43:15 AM
Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they hope could allow them to trace the outbreak back to its source.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/22/2024 9:02:00 AM
Lessons learned from the Covid pandemic have left the world in a much better position to tackle the current mpox epidemic raging in Africa, according to the Gavi vaccine alliance.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/18/2024 11:04:19 PM
The 16 of September marked the culmination of a significant collaboration initiative between the World Health Organization (WHO) in Egypt and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), supported by the Ministry of Health and Population and the Ministry of International Cooperation.
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Business
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Economy
9/18/2024 9:15:35 PM
The US Federal Reserve cut its key lending rate by half a percentage-point Wednesday in its first reduction since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, sharply lowering borrowing costs shortly before November's presidential election.
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World
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Africa
9/12/2024 9:36:55 PM
The head of the African Union's health watchdog said Thursday it was time for the West to show it had learnt from the Covid pandemic and not abandon Africa during the mpox outbreak.
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Life & Style
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Health
8/23/2024 6:54:34 PM
US regulators approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, shots designed to more closely target recent virus strains, and hopefully whatever variants cause trouble this winter, too.
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World
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International
8/20/2024 6:39:56 PM
The mpox outbreak is not another Covid-19, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it.
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Paris 2024
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News
8/8/2024 11:31:34 PM
Botswana's Letsile Tebogo became the first African to win the Olympic 200 metres on Thursday as he -- and Covid --upstaged Noah Lyles' plans for a sprint double in Paris.
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Paris 2024
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News
8/6/2024 3:26:27 PM
More than 40 athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics have tested positive for Covid-19 highlighting a new global rise in cases, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
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Paris 2024
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News
7/30/2024 1:27:56 PM
Australian medal hope Lani Pallister has tested positive for Covid at the Paris Olympics and pulled out of the women's 1500m freestyle on Tuesday.
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Paris 2024
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News
7/25/2024 10:36:51 AM
There has been no spike in Covid cases in France as tourists surge in for the Paris Olympic Games, a minister said Thursday, adding that the government would remain "vigilant".
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Paris 2024
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News
7/24/2024 2:56:37 PM
Five players on Australia’s women’s water polo team for the Paris Olympics have tested positive for COVID-19.
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World
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International
7/18/2024 9:58:31 AM
US President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid with mild symptoms Wednesday, shortly after conceding he would consider dropping his reelection bid if doctors diagnosed him with a serious medical condition.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/15/2024 11:59:39 AM
Four years since the start of the pandemic, the virus mostly affects at-risk groups like health workers and people over 60.
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