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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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Health
12/4/2024 10:41:08 AM
Countries trying to negotiate a global agreement on handling future pandemics began an extra week of talks Monday, with the WHO chief insisting the end was in sight.
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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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Health
11/12/2024 5:29:11 PM
Talks between World Health Organization (WHO) member states on a landmark global accord on handling future pandemics will roll into 2025 after countries decided Monday there were too many gaps to seal a deal this year.
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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
10/2/2024 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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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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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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Business
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Economy
9/11/2024 1:09:58 PM
Inflation in the United States may have hit a three-year low in August, underscoring that the rate of price increases is falling back to pre-pandemic levels and clearing the way for the Federal Reserve to start cutting its key interest rate next week.
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World
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Africa
9/5/2024 12:15:05 PM
Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday pledged over $50 billion in financing for Africa over the next three years, promising to deepen cooperation in infrastructure and trade with the continent as he addressed Beijing's biggest summit since the pandemic.
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Health
8/14/2024 1:38:23 PM
Alarmed by the surge in mpox cases, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has taken the unprecedented step of declaring the outbreak sweeping through African countries a continental public health emergency. The World Health Organization (WHO) is also meeting to decide whether to trigger its highest global alert level over the epidemic.
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Business
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Economy
8/2/2024 5:43:14 PM
The US jobs market cooled much more than expected in July with the unemployment rate reaching the highest since late 2021, government data showed Friday, paving the way towards post-pandemic interest rate cuts.
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Features
7/30/2024 10:13:33 AM
The chants of “Ra-fa! Ra-fa!” roared the moment Rafael Nadal entered Roland Garros for Monday's match against Novak Djokovic. So hyped was the crowd just minutes in, the chair umpire asked the spectators to be quiet during play.
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Health
7/17/2024 1:31:18 PM
Global childhood vaccination levels have stalled, leaving millions more children un- or under-vaccinated than before the pandemic, the U.N. said, warning of dangerous coverage gaps enabling outbreaks of diseases like measles.
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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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Business
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Economy
7/7/2024 2:49:09 PM
Egypt's net international reserves (NIRs) rose to $46,3 billion at the end of June, the highest level since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in March 2020, up from $46.1 posted a month earlier, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced on Sunday.
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Sports
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World
6/8/2024 12:55:39 PM
UEFA’s two-step financial plan to refill its pandemic-hit cash reserves starts with a men’s 2024 European Championship held in the home of the continent’s largest economy.
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Health
5/27/2024 11:25:13 AM
A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed — for now — to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic.
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Health
5/22/2024 12:07:31 PM
A global agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, which is still in negotiation, would not encroach on state sovereignty, the World Health Organization insisted.
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