Global Fund to allot 70% of its funding to countries hit by climate change
Dubai, UAE--The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) announced at COP28 that more than 70% of...
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Positive trial for Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-flu jab
Berlin, Germany - Germany's BioNTech and US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Thursday announced "positive" results from initial trials of their combined...
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Delta variant causes more severe disease, US documents sound alarm
CDC director Rochelle Walenksy cited the presentation this week to justify a return to masks for vaccinated people in high-risk...
WHO urges action to suppress Covid before deadlier variants emerge
The highly-transmissible variant, first detected in India, has now surfaced in 132 territories and is partly to blame for an...
Elderly Israelis to receive third jab of Pfizer vaccine
Much before the US begins to administer a third jab of the Pfizer/Biontech Covid-19 vaccine, Israel will start to give...
26m Saudis receive vaccine against Covid so far
Saudi Arabia has vaccinated more than 26 million people against the coronavirus ever since the kingdom began to inoculate its...
Saudi Arabia opens seven mosques after sanitization
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12 die in Saudi Arabia from Covid as infection lingers
Twelve people have died in Saudi Arabia from COVID-19, taking the total count of people having succumbed to the disease...
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- A total of 8,212 people have succumbed to the virus in the Kingdom so far
Iraqis ask for jabs as Covid tears through the country
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Oman to continue with ban on commerce, movement
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On-campus workers must be vaccinated, say Google, Facebook
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Mubadala invests $250 million in biosimulation firm Certara
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Global Fund to allot 70% of its funding to countries hit by climate change
Dubai, UAE--The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) announced at COP28 that more than 70% of...
COP28 UAE
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Countries which transform food system can meet net-zero goals, says WEF report
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90% of people in China province infected with Covid: official
China is battling a surge in cases following its decision last month to lift years of lockdowns, quarantines and mass...
- With a population of 99.4 million, the figures suggest about 88.5 million people in Henan may now have been infected
- Beijing is determined to press on with its reopening, on Sunday lifting mandatory quarantine for all international arrivals
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Abu Dhabi introduces Mobile BSL-3 Laboratory
ABU DHABI, UAE - Abu Dhabi Public Health Center (ADPHC) has introduced the first of its kind mobile BSL-3 (Biosafety...
- The BSL-3 mobile laboratory will enhance the UAE capital's infectious disease preparedness through swift, safe and accurate testing of communicable diseases.
- The mobile laboratory will be accessible across four sites in Abu Dhabi.
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France begins testing Chinese arrivals to track Covid variants
France joins other states including the United Kingdom, Italy and the United States in testing arrivals from China, four weeks...
- As of Sunday, visitors from China must wear a mask and be prepared to submit to a test on arrival, which will be done at random
- Then from Thursday travelers will also have to present a negative PCR or antigen test undertaken less than 48 hours before their flight