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Egypt
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Health
2/23/2023 5:33:14 PM
Egyptians willing to perform Hajj (annual Islamic pilgrimage) this year in the holy city of Mecca are required to be fully vaccinated against coronavirus and to take a meningitis vaccine shot, Spokesman of Egypt’s Ministry of Health Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar affirmed.
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Egypt
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Health
2/11/2023 10:31:43 PM
The dominant strain of coronavirus currently in Egypt is the Omicron variant, which exhibits milder symptoms despite being more infectious, head of the Health and Population Ministry's Preventive Medicine Sector Amr Kandil said on Saturday.
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World
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Africa
2/9/2023 3:55:53 PM
The deadliest cholera outbreak in Malawi's history has killed at least 1,210 people, while vaccines remain scarce, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
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Life & Style
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Health
2/7/2023 2:38:11 PM
Could humanity finally be gaining the upper hand in our age-old fight against cancer?
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Egypt
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Health
2/3/2023 5:51:04 PM
Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population has vaccinated more than 430,000 people against the coronavirus after launching a door-to-door campaign on 29 January in four governorates.
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Life & Style
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Style
2/2/2023 4:06:37 PM
Africa's public health agency says countries with deadly cholera outbreaks on the continent have no ``immediate access'' to vaccines amid a global supply shortage.
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Egypt
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Health
1/28/2023 9:56:33 PM
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly inaugurated on Saturday a factory owned by pharmaceutical company BioGeneric Pharma in northern Egypt’s 10th of Ramadan City, which is set to receive the technology required to produce mRNA vaccines and biologics.
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Egypt
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Health
1/25/2023 10:46:52 PM
Health and Population Minister Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar said on Wednesday that more than 40 million citizens have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus in Egypt so far.
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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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