The Ministry of Public Health announced 2770 new coronavirus infection cases, which brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 305842. 81 deaths have been registered over the past 24 hours.
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Abdel Samad, Hassan and Al-Bizri discuss vaccine media plan drafted by Ministry of Information
A preparatory meeting was held this Tuesday at the Ministry of Information, between caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, Health Minister Hamad Hassan, and head of the National Committee for Vaccination, Abdel-Rahman Al-Bizri. The meeting discussed the content of the draft media plan prepared by the Ministry of Information on the coronavirus vaccine, in...
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Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine 91.6% effective: Lancet study
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6 percent effective against symptomatic Covid-19, according to results published in The Lancet on Tuesday that independent experts said allayed transparency concerns over the jab, which Moscow is already rolling out. Sputnik V — named after the Soviet-era satellite — was approved in Russia months before results from its final-stage...
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Australia’s Ellume gets $230 million from U.S. to make more rapid COVID-19 tests
The U.S. government has awarded $231.8 million to Australian diagnostic test maker Ellume to expand the production of a rapid COVID-19 test that can be bought over the counter and used at home, the Department of Defense said on Monday. The agency said the funding will help Ellume increase production capacity by 640,000 tests per...
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Dubai shuts bars after coronavirus surge
Dubai on Monday ordered bars and pubs to close until the end of the month to suppress a spike in coronavirus cases, after tourists flocked to the emirate over the holiday period. The closures, effective from Tuesday, are among a raft of steps “taken in response to rising violations of preventive measures,” authorities said in...
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100-year-old British veteran hospitalized with virus he raised money to fight
Tom Moore, the 100-year-old World War II veteran who captivated the British public in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic with his fundraising efforts, has been hospitalized with COVID-19, his daughter said Sunday. Hannah Ingram-Moore revealed in a statement posted on Twitter that her father, widely known as Captain Tom, has been admitted to...
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Hassan from Deir al-Ahmar stresses on exerting devoted efforts based on national grounds: Our work is not hampered by any considerations
Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Hamad Hassan, on Sunday, inaugurated a department for Corona patients at “Al-Mahabba Hospital” in the town of Deir Al-Ahmar, in the presence of Deputy Antoine Habshi; Pastor of the Maronite Diocese of Baalbek and Deir Al-Ahmar, Bishop Hanna Rahmeh; Head of the Union of Municipalities of Deir Al-Ahmar Region, Jean...
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Health Minister: Closure indicators are promising, country not to be opened all at once
Caretaker Public Health Minister, Hamad Hassan, deemed the current total lockdown in the country as “the second successful closure after the first lockdown last March.” “Indicators are promising in light of the decline of the proliferative index to 0.93%, which will be reflected in about two weeks on the positive rate of the tests that...
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Malaysia reports record daily rise of 5,728 coronavirus cases
Malaysia reported its biggest daily rise in coronavirus cases for the second straight day, with 5,728 new infections recorded on Saturday. The new cases took the cumulative total of infections to 209,661. The health ministry also reported 13 new deaths, raising total fatalities from the pandemic to 746. – Reuters
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Pfizer vaccine not linked to post-jab deaths: EU regulator
The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus jab has no link to reported post-vaccination deaths and no new side effects, the EU’s medicines regulator said Friday based on the first data from the vaccine’s rollout. The European Medicines Agency said it had looked at the deaths, including a number in the elderly, and “concluded that the data did not...