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World
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Africa
3/7/2022 6:31:26 PM
Moderna signed a memorandum of understanding with Kenya's government on Monday for the drugmaker's first mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Africa, the company said.
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Egypt
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Health
3/2/2022 8:39:37 PM
Egypt started clinical trials on Tuesday for its second local coronavirus vaccine Egy-Vax, which will be produced in cooperation with private drug company Eva pharma, with plans to produce 1.6 million doses daily.
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World
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Region
2/23/2022 1:47:07 PM
A judge shot dead with 15 bullets from a Kalashnikov. A policeman gunned down. Local figures from rival political groups and influential armed factions killed.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
2/22/2022 4:51:36 PM
Egyptian Public Prosecution referred on Monday pharmacist Ahmed Aboul-Nasr — known as the ‘Curcumin Doctor’ — to an economic misdemeanour court over charges of fraud, impersonating a doctor, managing an unlicensed hospital and pharmacy, and selling unlicensed herbs and medicine.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
2/20/2022 8:35:52 PM
The percentage of public sector employees abusing drugs in Egypt has dropped from 8 percent in 2019 to 1 percent over the first week of the Anti-Drug Law going into effect, which allows the dismissal of employees who test positive for drugs.
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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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World
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International
1/31/2022 9:49:17 PM
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Monday that it has granted full approval to Moderna's Covid-19 "Spikevax" vaccine, which had previously received an emergency use authorization in the United States.
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Egypt
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Health
1/31/2022 5:58:52 PM
The first batch of AstraZeneca’s Evusheld — a monoclonal antibody drug that resists the coronavirus — comprising 15,000 doses arrived in Egypt, the company announced on Monday.
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World
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International
1/27/2022 5:29:36 PM
The EU's drug watchdog approved Pfizer's coronavirus pill on Thursday, making it the first oral antiviral treatment for the disease to be authorised in Europe.
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Egypt
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Health
1/24/2022 7:58:48 PM
The Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) issued on Monday an emergency use authorisation for Merck’s COVID-19 drug Molnupiravir and has allowed five national companies to manufacture the oral antiviral as a first stage.
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Egypt
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Health
1/16/2022 2:43:48 PM
AstraZeneca announced on Sunday that the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) has granted AstraZeneca’s ‘Evusheld’ an emergency use authorisation (EUA).
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World
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International
1/10/2022 7:38:14 PM
The European drug regulator said Monday it has started evaluating an application by Pfizer for its pill to treat the effects of COVID-19.
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Egypt
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Health
1/3/2022 11:20:00 PM
Egypt is expected to receive its first shipments of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca coronavirus drugs in January, Egyptian health ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar said on Monday.
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World
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International
1/3/2022 7:19:52 PM
The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters as it confronts the omicron surge, with the Food and Drug Administration allowing extra Pfizer shots for children as young as 12.
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Egypt
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Politics
1/2/2022 8:40:33 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has stressed Egypt’s support for the role of the United Nations in the face of regional and international threats posed by crime, illicit drugs and terrorism.
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World
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Region
12/29/2021 9:37:32 PM
A shipment of fake oranges hid millions of Captagon pills intercepted by Lebanese authorities, the interior minister said Wednesday, in the latest regional seizure of the stimulant drug.
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World
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International
12/23/2021 6:50:51 PM
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday authorized Merck's Covid pill for high risk adults, a day after giving the green light to a similar pill by Pfizer.
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Egypt
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Defence
12/23/2021 2:12:47 PM
Egypt’s border guards arrested 2,267 irregular migrants of different nationalities at strategic border areas over the past month, Armed Forces Spokesman Gharib Abdel-Hafez said in a statement on Thursday.
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World
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International
12/22/2021 7:52:44 PM
US health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus.
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Egypt
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Health
12/22/2021 5:24:50 PM
Presidential Adviser for Health Affairs Mohamed Awad Tag El-Din announced on Tuesday evening that Egypt may locally manufacture COVID-19 treatment pills developed by giant pharmaceutical company Merck in a matter of a month or so.
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