Life & Style
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Health
2/13/2022 11:47:05 AM
An early look at the performance of COVID-19 booster shots during the recent omicron wave in the U.S. hinted at a decline in effectiveness, though the shots still offered strong protection against severe illness.
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World
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International
2/9/2022 10:39:46 PM
The European Union is cautiously welcoming a "stabilization" of the latest wave of the coronavirus pandemic but knows it must do more to help poorer nations, especially in Africa with jabs, officials said Wednesday.
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World
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International
2/9/2022 10:38:07 PM
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday that laws requiring people in England with COVID-19 to self-isolate could be lifted by the end of the month, bringing an end to all domestic coronavirus restrictions.
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World
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International
2/9/2022 5:15:32 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday he had met with the Taliban's health minister for talks on the "dire" health and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
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World
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International
2/8/2022 8:00:45 PM
The EU's medicines watchdog said Tuesday it has started to evaluate Pfizer/BionTech's coronavirus vaccine to booster children aged 12 to 15 years.
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World
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International
2/6/2022 6:46:07 PM
Russia is reporting a record daily count of new coronavirus infections, a tenfold spike from a month ago as the highly contagious omicron variant spreads through the country.
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World
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International
2/6/2022 4:14:17 PM
More demonstrators poured onto the streets of Ottawa and other Canadian cities on Saturday demanding an end to Covid vaccine mandates, as protests against pandemic restrictions entered their second week.
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World
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Region
2/5/2022 4:05:11 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has tested positive for COVID-19, he tweeted Saturday.
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World
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International
2/3/2022 4:10:55 PM
The World Health Organization on Thursday offered Europe hope of a "long period of tranquility" and even "enduring peace" in the war on coronavirus, with a growing list of nations lifting almost all Covid curbs.
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World
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International
2/2/2022 1:38:43 PM
France on Wednesday loosened several of the restrictions imposed to curb the latest Covid surge, with authorities hoping a recent decline in daily cases will soon ease pressure on overburdened hospitals.
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World
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International
2/2/2022 1:34:46 PM
Late-night disco partying. Elbow-to-elbow seating in movie theaters. Mask-free bearing of faces in public, especially in Europe and North America.
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Egypt
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Health
2/2/2022 12:28:34 PM
Egypt recorded 2,291 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, setting another record-high for the eighth day in a row, as the country continues to battle the pandemic.
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World
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International
2/1/2022 10:57:45 PM
The World Health Organization chief said Tuesday that 90 million cases of coronavirus have been reported since the omicron variant was first identified 10 weeks ago _ amounting to more than in all of 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/31/2022 12:27:27 PM
More than a third of COVID-19 survivors by some estimates will develop lingering problems.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
1/27/2022 12:45:00 PM
Egypt is witnessing a record rise in infections with the Omicron variant of Covid-19, though the risk of serious illness or hospitalisation is far lower.
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Egypt
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Health
1/27/2022 11:20:49 AM
Egypt reported on Wednesday 1,910 new coronavirus cases, the highest ever single-day toll of infections that has been reported so far since the start of the pandemic in February 2020, bringing the total infection tally to 415,468.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/26/2022 4:51:59 PM
Scientists and health officials around the world are keeping their eyes on a descendant of the omicron variant that has been found in at least 40 countries, including the United States.
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Life & Style
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Health
1/25/2022 9:29:04 PM
World health officials are offering hope that the ebbing of the omicron wave could give way to a new, more manageable phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
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World
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International
1/25/2022 5:25:34 PM
Pfizer has begun a study comparing its original COVID-19 vaccine with doses specially tweaked to match the hugely contagious omicron variant.
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Egypt
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Health
1/25/2022 1:06:00 AM
Egypt reported 1,651 new coronavirus cases on Monday, the country’s highest single-day rise since June 2020, bringing the total infection tally to 411,749, said the health ministry in its daily coronavirus update statement.
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