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World
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Africa
6/1/2022 1:59:19 PM
As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, some doctors acknowledge an ugly reality: The resources to slow the disease's spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades.
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Egypt
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Health
5/28/2022 7:20:18 PM
Egypt recorded a daily average of four coronavirus infections and two deaths over the past week (21-27 May), the Ministry of Health and Populaton said in a statement on Saturday.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/28/2022 2:46:05 PM
The World Health Organization says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as ``containable'' and proposed creating a stockpile to equitably share the limited vaccines and drugs available worldwide.
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World
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International
5/26/2022 10:39:12 PM
The EU is working on centralizing purchases of vaccines and treatments for monkeypox, with details to be agreed in the "coming days," the European Commission told AFP on Thursday.
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World
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Africa
5/25/2022 11:23:04 AM
Pfizer says it will provide nearly two dozen products, including its top-selling COVID-19 vaccine and treatment, at not-for-profit prices in Africa and some of the world's poorest countries.
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World
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International
5/23/2022 10:02:26 PM
Parents hoping to get their youngest children vaccinated against COVID-19 got some encouraging news Monday.
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World
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International
5/23/2022 8:37:03 PM
The monkeypox outbreaks in non-endemic countries can be contained and human-to-human transmission of the virus stopped, the World Health Organization said Monday.
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World
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International
5/23/2022 5:57:06 PM
Three doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than 5, the company announced Monday. Pfizer plans to give the data to U.S. regulators later this week in a step toward letting the littlest kids get the shots.
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Egypt
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Health
5/21/2022 9:34:00 PM
Egypt recorded a daily average of five coronavirus infections and two deaths over the past week (14-20 May), the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Saturday.
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World
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International
5/21/2022 7:38:14 PM
The White House is planning for ``dire'' contingencies that could include rationing supplies of vaccines and treatments this fall if Congress doesn't approve more money for fighting COVID-19.
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World
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International
5/17/2022 10:15:16 PM
An expert group convened by the World Health Organization says there may be some benefit in giving a second booster dose of coronavirus vaccine to the most vulnerable people amid the continuing global spread of omicron and its subvariants.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/17/2022 4:40:07 PM
Under the slogan ‘Long life for all’, Egypt held a global symposium on 13 May to raise awareness about the pivotal role of vaccines in avoiding some diseases.
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Egypt
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Health
5/7/2022 3:11:56 PM
Egypt recorded a daily average of eight coronavirus infections over the past week, the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population announced on Saturday, with the country’s daily infections dropping to their lowest levels since the start of the pandemic.
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World
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International
5/5/2022 4:19:22 PM
The European Union's drug watchdog said Thursday that it is assessing the possible use of Moderna's Covid vaccine for children aged five and under, the only group not yet eligible for the jab in most countries.
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Egypt
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Health
4/16/2022 11:58:31 PM
Egypt has recorded an average daily number of coronavirus cases of 124 over the past week, down from 400 infections in the previous week, hitting its lowest level daily count since August 2021.
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Life & Style
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Health
4/14/2022 1:25:57 PM
An existing meningitis vaccine offers protection against gonorrhea, three studies said
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World
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International
4/14/2022 12:31:28 PM
The Valneva vaccine is made with the decades-old technology used to manufacture shots for flu and polio. It is the sixth COVID-19 vaccine the U.K. has cleared and the only one that utilizes a "killed'' virus; scientists grow the coronavirus in a lab and then inactivate the virus so it cannot replicate or infect cells.
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World
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International
4/13/2022 8:45:01 PM
A Covid-19 vaccine effective against multiple variants is possible before the end of 2022, the head of US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Health
4/9/2022 7:28:10 PM
The average daily coronavirus infection and deaths tolls in Egypt have continued to decline this past week, with the country reporting an average of 400 infections and seven deaths per day over the past week.
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Egypt
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Health
4/7/2022 6:16:26 PM
Egypt received a shipment carrying about 1.5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine at Cairo International Airport on Wednesday evening from the United States, Acting Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar announced on Thursday.
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