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Business
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Economy
5/1/2023 5:29:03 PM
The insurance sector in Egypt – one of the oldest of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa – has, like all sectors in the country’s economy, been suffering a number of challenges.
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Life & Style
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Health
4/20/2023 2:31:34 PM
Nearly 13 million children missed one or more vaccinations in Africa between 2019 and 2021 because of the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving the continent vulnerable to even more outbreaks of disease and facing a “child survival crisis,” a new report from UNICEF said Thursday.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
4/19/2023 5:57:14 PM
Egypt and Russia are speeding up the construction of the 4.8 GW nuclear power plant at El-Dabaa, which is located 135 kilometres west of Alexandria, putting it back on schedule after initial delays due to the war in Ukraine and COVID-19.
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Business
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Economy
4/12/2023 2:37:35 PM
Global government debt is on track to reach levels not seen since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Wednesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
4/11/2023 9:27:47 PM
Mia Amor Mottley and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ask what a just industrial strategy might look like
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Books
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News
4/6/2023 11:38:11 PM
“300,000 years of fear – the history of humankind from beginning to monotheism” chronicles personal exchanges between a father and a daughter to understand and deal with the psychological impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in the thick of things three years ago.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
4/2/2023 12:00:00 AM
The infectious disease that killed the most people last year is one we’ve heard almost nothing about, writes
Bjorn Lomborg
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World
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International
3/28/2023 7:46:21 PM
The World Health Organization said Tuesday it is no longer recommending additional Covid-19 vaccine booster doses for regular, medium-risk adults, saying the benefit was marginal.
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Egypt
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Health
3/26/2023 1:36:08 PM
Egypt announced on Sunday that they had received just over two million doses of Pfizer’s Omicron-adapted COVID-19 vaccine from eight countries over the past week.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
3/25/2023 6:26:00 PM
The Ministry of Health is making sure everyone is vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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World
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Africa
3/23/2023 6:09:45 PM
Devastation in southern Africa wrought by Cyclone Freddy is raising "major health risks," including the spread of cholera, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
3/21/2023 11:18:36 PM
With the 2008 global financial crisis threatening to repeat itself, can the world take another hit after the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war.
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Egypt
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Health
3/20/2023 2:11:10 PM
Egypt received the first shipment of the adapted bivalent Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health and Population on Sunday, adding that the cargo contained around 599,040 doses.
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Life & Style
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Health
3/17/2023 5:29:41 PM
The Covid-19 pandemic could settle down this year to a point where it poses a threat similar to the flu, the World Health Organization said Friday.
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World
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International
3/14/2023 1:10:58 PM
China will reopen its borders to tourists and resume issuing all visas Wednesday as it tries to revive tourism and its economy following a three-year halt during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Life & Style
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Health
3/11/2023 11:21:18 AM
On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus is still spreading and the death toll is nearing 7 million worldwide. Yet most people have resumed their normal lives, thanks to a wall of immunity built from infections and vaccines.
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Life & Style
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Health
3/4/2023 3:44:56 PM
BI had now assessed the source of the Covid-19 as most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan, says FBI Director
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World
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International
3/1/2023 6:14:16 PM
COVID-19's origins remain hazy. Three years after the start of the pandemic, it's still unclear whether the coronavirus that causes the disease leaked from a lab or spread to humans from an animal.
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World
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International
2/28/2023 10:47:02 PM
China on Tuesday pushed back at renewed suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic could have been the result of a lab leak, saying it has been “open and transparent” in the search for the virus’ origins.
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Life & Style
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Health
2/28/2023 12:58:36 PM
A crucial question has eluded governments and health agencies around the world since the COVID-19 pandemic began: Did the virus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab?
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