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World
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Africa
1/15/2023 10:58:57 PM
Malawi is facing its worst outbreak in two decades. The outbreak started early in 2022 and has, so far, resulted in over 18,000 cases and the loss of 750 lives. It’s also forced the closure of schools and many businesses.
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World
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International
1/3/2023 4:35:15 PM
The European Union said Tuesday it has offered China help to deal with its COVID-19 crisis, including the donation of vaccines, as the bloc seeks to coordinate how authorities should check incoming passengers from China for any new variants.
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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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World
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Africa
12/8/2022 6:03:10 PM
Uganda on Thursday received its first shipment of trial vaccines against a strain of Ebola that has claimed dozens of lives, amid cautious optimism the outbreak could soon be over.
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World
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Africa
12/1/2022 3:22:58 PM
Africa's top public health body says the continent is set to receive its first batch of mpox vaccines as a donation from South Korea.
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Life & Style
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Health
11/23/2022 8:43:01 PM
The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles immunization has dropped significantly since the coronavirus pandemic began, resulting in a record high of nearly 40 million children missing a vaccine dose last year.
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World
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Africa
11/16/2022 6:10:50 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that he expects the first doses of Ebola vaccine targeting the strain behind an outbreak in Uganda to arrive in the country next week.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/9/2022 5:44:59 PM
Egypt’s Ambassador to Lebanon Yasser Elwy announced that a new batch of medical aid including medicine and vaccines arrived in Beirut earlier Wednesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
11/1/2022 9:31:29 PM
The World Health Organization said Tuesday that its emergency committee had determined that monkeypox should continue to be classified as a global health emergency.
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Business
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Economy
10/31/2022 5:01:09 PM
Egypt has taken significant strides towards becoming a regional vaccine manufacturing hub, including being recognised in March as a country that meets the relevant international standards, said Mohamed El-Attar, head of health economics sector at GSK.
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World
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Africa
10/30/2022 9:34:31 PM
The development of an effective vaccine for malaria has proved to be far more challenging than developing a vaccine to protect people from COVID-19. Several different COVID-19 vaccines were developed and approved for use within a year of the disease’s emergence.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/18/2022 1:51:55 PM
Nasal vaccines could still be a powerful future weapon in the fight against Covid-19 despite "disappointing" recent trial results for an AstraZeneca spray, experts say.
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Sports
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Egyptian Football
10/17/2022 8:29:09 PM
Tazkarti, the Egyptian operator for booking tickets for football games in the country, has announced on Monday it is dropping the requirement for fans to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to get their Fans ID or tickets for the 2022/23 season.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
10/10/2022 11:52:10 PM
Over 18,000 workers in Sharm El-Sheikh, including hotel staffers and taxi drivers, received booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine in preparation for the 27th UN Climate Change Conference COP27, slated for November in Egypt’s coastal city.
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Egypt
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Health
9/24/2022 4:56:37 PM
Egypt's Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar inaugurated on Saturday a fully automated cooling logistical complex for the storage and distribution of vaccines, which serves the country's plan to become a vaccine hub for Africa.
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World
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Africa
9/14/2022 7:01:56 PM
With monkeypox cases subsiding in Europe and parts of North America, many scientists say now is the time to prioritize stopping the virus in Africa.
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World
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Region
9/12/2022 7:07:54 PM
The EU's medicines watchdog on Monday approved a vaccine specifically targeting the new and infectious types of the Omicron variant amid fears of a new wave of winter infections.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/8/2022 2:06:31 PM
Nasal COVID-19 vaccines could help to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, the World Health Organization said Wednesday after homegrown products were approved in India and China.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/5/2022 1:46:39 PM
Chinese drug regulators have approved the world's first inhalable Covid-19 vaccine, made by Tianjin-based manufacturer CanSino Biologics, boosting the company's share price by seven percent on Monday.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/4/2022 2:47:47 PM
Entirely new COVID-19 variants could emerge this winter but existing vaccines should protect people from serious illness and death, the EU's drug agency said .
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