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World
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International
5/17/2022 10:15:16 PM
An expert group convened by the World Health Organization says there may be some benefit in giving a second booster dose of coronavirus vaccine to the most vulnerable people amid the continuing global spread of omicron and its subvariants.
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Life & Style
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Health
4/12/2022 3:45:47 PM
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World
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International
4/2/2022 3:41:41 PM
The prevalence of COVID-19 in the U.K. has reached record levels, with about 1 in 13 people estimated to be infected with the virus in the past week, according to the latest figures from Britain's official statistics agency.
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World
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International
3/23/2022 5:59:08 PM
US biotech firm Moderna on Wednesday said it was pursuing regulatory approval for its Covid vaccine in children under six years old after the two-shot regimen was found to be safe and produced a strong immune response.
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World
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International
3/19/2022 2:06:35 PM
China's health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as the country battles its worst outbreak in two years driven by a surge in the highly transmissible omicron variant.
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World
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International
3/14/2022 1:24:59 PM
China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit northeastern province and mobilized military reservists Monday as the fast-spreading ``stealth omicron'' variant fuels the country's biggest outbreak since the start of the pandemic two years ago.
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Egypt
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Health
3/7/2022 3:31:23 PM
Egypt has gotten past the “difficult phase” of the latest wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Presidential Advisor for Health Affairs Mohamed Awad Tag El-Din said on Monday, as the country is witnessing a noticeable drop in daily positive cases and deaths.
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Life & Style
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Health
3/2/2022 3:43:01 PM
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
2/24/2022 11:51:00 AM
Safeya Mounir sounds out tourism experts on whether Egypt’s tourist industry will be affected by the crisis between Russia and Ukraine
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Business
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Markets & Companies
2/23/2022 12:57:14 PM
Last week, The Egyptian Authority for Unified Procurement (UPA) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with AstraZeneca in order to sponsor Egypt’s first ‘Africa Health ExCon’, which is scheduled for June.
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Life & Style
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Health
2/23/2022 9:56:21 AM
Experts say it’s not likely that the highly transmissible variant — or any other variant — will lead to herd immunity.
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World
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International
2/22/2022 11:13:17 PM
The BA.2 variant of the Omicron coronavirus strain is not more severe than the original, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
2/22/2022 4:29:54 PM
Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis:
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Egypt
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Tourism
2/22/2022 2:58:12 PM
EgyptAir announced on Tuesday the resumption of direct flights between Cairo and Bangkok — Thailand’s capital — starting June after a hiatus brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.
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World
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Region
2/22/2022 12:03:15 PM
Dubai's main airport said Tuesday it has retained its top place as the world's busiest for international travel with around 29 million passengers shuttling through the global gateway last year.
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World
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International
2/20/2022 7:06:31 PM
Australia will welcome international tourists on Monday after nearly two years of sealing its borders, relying on high COVID-19 vaccination rates to live with the pandemic as infections decline, CNA reported.
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World
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International
2/19/2022 1:06:32 PM
Police in Canada moved Friday to dislodge the final truckers and protesters from downtown Ottawa, in a mostly peaceful operation aimed at bringing an end to three weeks of demonstrations over Covid-19 health rules.
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World
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International
2/18/2022 5:11:53 PM
Authorities in Canada say they are beginning to arrest truckers who have paralyzed traffic in Ottawa for three weeks in a protest against the country's COVID-19 restrictions.
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Egypt
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Health
2/16/2022 7:29:09 PM
Egypt will sell Merck’s COVID-19 drug Molnupiravir – which received emergency use authorisation by the country's drug regulator in January – at government-affiliated pharmacies, the acting Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar announced on Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Health
2/15/2022 8:06:30 PM
Each coronavirus wave has its distinctive symptoms that say it is not flu and the current wave’s major symptom is body aches, head of the parliament’s health committee and former health minister Ashraf Hatem said on Monday.
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