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Egypt
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Health
10/30/2021 10:52:38 PM
Cairo International Airport received on Saturday a total of 3,634,020 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from the US, the fourth and largest shipment of this vaccine to reach the country since late September.
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World
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International
10/30/2021 5:30:45 PM
Russia complained Saturday about lack of international recognition for its Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine at a G20 summit, where leaders agreed to step up global inoculation efforts.
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World
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International
10/30/2021 3:54:39 PM
Italy's Premier Mario Draghi opened a conference of the world's powerhouse economies with a sharp call to pick up the pace in getting vaccines to poor countries, calling the gaping global COVID-19 vaccine gap 'morally unacceptable'.
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World
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Region
10/30/2021 10:41:35 AM
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the U.K. will donate 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to developing countries as part of efforts to share vaccines with countries that sorely lack them.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/29/2021 12:44:14 PM
Deputy Foreign Minister for African Affairs Ambassador Hamdy Loza said that the equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines and the strengthening of the local pharmaceutical industry would greatly contribute to achieving the Africa-EU partnership goals.
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World
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International
10/28/2021 5:45:25 PM
The World Health Organization said Thursday its plan to secure and deploy vaccines, tests and treatments to combat the Covid-19 pandemic needed $23.4 billion over the next 12 months.
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Egypt
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Health
10/27/2021 7:38:14 PM
Two million Chinese coronavirus vaccine doses will arrive in Egypt "very soon," Chinese ambassador Liao Liqiang said at an online press conference on Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Health
10/26/2021 10:47:38 PM
Egypt has vaccinated between 23-24 million people against Covid-19 with no serious side effects from the vaccines recorded, a presidential adviser said on Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
10/26/2021 12:59:59 PM
Moderna says it will make up to 110 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine available to African countries.
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Sports
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World
10/26/2021 10:29:26 AM
Bayern Munich soccer star Joshua Kimmich has found himself at the center of a debate in Germany over the merits of vaccination against the coronavirus.
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Egypt
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Health
10/26/2021 9:58:28 AM
Egypt reported 889 new coronavirus cases on Monday, bringing the total infection tally officially to 325,508 since the outbreak began in February 2020, said Health Ministry in its daily coronavirus update statement.
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World
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International
10/25/2021 10:44:02 PM
The EU's drug watchdog on Monday approved booster doses of Moderna's Covid vaccine for all over-18s, amid concerns that protection levels dip after initial jabs.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/25/2021 5:33:43 PM
Moderna said Monday that a low dose of its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and appears to work in 6- to 11-year-olds, as the manufacturer moves toward expanding shots to children.
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Egypt
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Health
10/25/2021 12:35:59 PM
Egypt received the third batch of 1,058,400 shots of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine (Janssen) on Monday through the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust in cooperation with the African Export-Import Bank, the Ministry of Health said.
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Egypt
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Health
10/25/2021 10:00:27 AM
Egypt reported 886 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, bringing the total infection tally officially to 324,619 since the outbreak began in February 2020, said Health Ministry in its daily coronavirus update statement.
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World
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Africa
10/24/2021 3:36:48 PM
In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world's poorest people.
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Egypt
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Health
10/23/2021 11:20:57 AM
Egypt received on Friday the third shipment of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine comprising 1.4 million doses donated by the United States, bringing the total to 4.6 million.
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World
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International
10/22/2021 4:25:34 PM
Kid-size doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine appear safe and nearly 91% effective at preventing symptomatic infections in 5- to 11-year-olds, according to study details released Friday as the US considers opening vaccinations to that age group.
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World
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International
10/20/2021 9:19:10 PM
Under pressure from rising infections and worried health experts, the British government on Wednesday urged millions of people to get booster vaccine shots but resisted calls to reimpose coronavirus restrictions such as mandatory mask-wearing.
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World
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Africa
10/20/2021 7:41:14 PM
South Africa has started giving COVID-19 vaccinations to adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years, with a goal of inoculating at least 6 million people from this age group.
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