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World
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International
12/31/2022 9:30:33 AM
Spain, South Korea, and Israel on Friday joined nations imposing Covid tests on travelers from China after Beijing dropped foreign travel curbs despite surging cases.
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World
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International
12/30/2022 3:13:46 PM
Japan on Friday started requiring COVID-19 tests for all passengers arriving from China as an emergency measure against surging infections there as the Asian island country faces its own rising case numbers and record-level deaths.
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World
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International
12/29/2022 8:33:20 PM
The United States joined nations imposing Covid tests on travellers from China after Beijing dropped foreign travel curbs despite surging cases, but the EU's health agency said Thursday such measures weren't warranted in the bloc.
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World
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International
12/28/2022 10:44:38 PM
The United States will require negative Covid-19 tests from all air travelers from China, saying Beijing is not sharing enough information about the surge in coronavirus cases there, health officials said Wednesday.
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World
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International
12/28/2022 11:18:44 AM
China says it will resume issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from anti-virus controls that isolated the country for almost three years, setting up a potential flood of Chinese going abroad for next month's Lunar New Year holiday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
12/27/2022 4:48:26 PM
Mostafa Ahmady sums up all that has been wrong with the world in the past year.
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Life & Style
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Health
12/27/2022 12:57:05 PM
Chinese authorities are going door to door and paying people older than 60 to get vaccinated against COVID-19. But even as cases surge, 64-year-old Li Liansheng said his friends are alarmed by stories of fevers, blood clots and other side effects.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
12/27/2022 10:39:40 AM
Asian markets rose on Tuesday after China said it would end quarantine for arrivals, spurring hopes for the revival of the world's second-largest economy and boosting oil which continued its upward surge on fears of Russian production cuts.
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Business
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Economy
12/26/2022 11:22:00 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create serious challenges for the Egyptian economy, which has been exacerbated by the repercussions of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict that sparked in March.
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World
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International
12/26/2022 6:25:36 PM
China will scrap quarantine measures for overseas arrivals starting January 8, health authorities announced Monday, after nearly three years of strict pandemic border restrictions.
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World
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International
12/26/2022 5:19:13 PM
Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China's industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-law had COVID-19 and needed urgent medical care, but all hospitals nearby were full.
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Life & Style
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Health
12/26/2022 10:17:35 AM
Could the COVID-19 surge in China unleash a new coronavirus mutant on the world?
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World
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International
12/25/2022 5:04:07 PM
Could the COVID-19 surge in China unleash a new coronavirus mutant on the world?
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Business
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Economy
12/25/2022 1:30:33 PM
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has extended two initiatives supporting companies working in the tourism sector that were initially set to expire at the end of the year through March 2023, the bank announced on Sunday.
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World
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International
12/25/2022 12:22:57 PM
China will no longer publish daily figures for Covid-19 cases and deaths, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday, ending a practice that began in early 2020.
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World
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International
12/24/2022 1:58:54 PM
Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with Covid-19 every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgment that the country's wave of infections is not being reflected in official statistics.
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Business
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Economy
12/23/2022 6:18:00 PM
Late Friday, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $3 billion 46-month loan deal for Egypt under the Fund’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) with an immediate disbursement of about $347 million as a first tranche of the loan amount.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
12/23/2022 4:28:00 PM
The year is ending with question marks over the global energy market from the Ukraine conflict, the OPEC+ countries, and China’s Covid-19 policies.
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Business
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Economy
12/23/2022 4:09:00 PM
The World Bank announced on Friday $500 million in financing dedicated to expanding and strengthening Egypt’s flagship Takaful and Karama social safety net program.
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World
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International
12/21/2022 8:23:37 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is ``very concerned'' about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its "zero COVID'' policy, warning that its lagging vaccination rate could result in large numbers of vulnerable people getting infected.
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