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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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
9/18/2024 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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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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World
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International
8/20/2024 6:39:56 PM
The mpox outbreak is not another Covid-19, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it.
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Paris 2024
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News
8/6/2024 3:26:27 PM
More than 40 athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics have tested positive for Covid-19 highlighting a new global rise in cases, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
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Paris 2024
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News
7/24/2024 2:56:37 PM
Five players on Australia’s women’s water polo team for the Paris Olympics have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Life & Style
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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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Life & Style
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Health
6/18/2024 2:04:49 PM
If you’ve been sick with COVID-19, you may have some protection against certain versions of the common cold.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
6/5/2024 5:17:12 PM
EgyptAir will resume its flights to Abidjan starting 9 July, operating three flights weekly to the Ivorian city on Fridays, Sundays, and Tuesdays.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
5/29/2024 10:29:00 PM
There have been widespread concerns regarding the potential side effects of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, with reports suggesting that these could lead to serious health conditions or even death.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/2/2024 1:49:24 PM
The EU's drug watchdog urged that anti-Covid jabs be updated before another round of vaccinations to counter a new variant of the virus, which is still claiming thousands of lives.
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Egypt
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Health
4/30/2024 2:44:01 PM
Egyptian health authorities have reassured citizens about the safety and effectiveness of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine after the UK pharmaceutical giant admitted rare blood clot risks associated with its usage.
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World
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International
4/30/2024 12:31:52 PM
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab.
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