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Life & Style
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Health
1/23/2025 11:31:29 AM
Whether Covid-19 was unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals remains an enduring, fiercely contested mystery.
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World
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International
1/21/2025 12:44:39 PM
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), a body he has repeatedly criticized over its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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World
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International
1/20/2025 6:15:23 PM
US President Joe Biden issued pre-emptive pardons on Monday to former Covid advisor Anthony Fauci and retired general Mark Milley to shield them from potential "politically motivated prosecutions" under the Trump administration.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
1/9/2025 9:53:00 AM
No cases of the HMPV virus have been reported in Egypt and Covid-19 variants pose no significant threat.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/5/2025 12:11:18 PM
Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world.
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World
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International
12/31/2024 1:25:50 PM
Beijing insisted on Tuesday that it had shared information on COVID-19 "without holding anything back" after the World Health Organization implored China to offer more data and access to understand the disease's origins.
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Egypt
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Health
12/25/2024 3:21:51 PM
Although Egypt is currently experiencing a spread of respiratory viruses, the new COVID-19 variant circulating globally has not yet reached the country, according to Hossam Hosni, head of the Scientific Committee to Combat Coronavirus at the Ministry of Health and Population.
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Life & Style
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Health
12/22/2024 12:19:02 PM
Millions have been affected by long COVID, in which some people struggle to recover from the acute phase of COVID-19, suffering symptoms including tiredness, brain fog and shortness of breath.
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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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