Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Dr. Hamad Hassan, on Monday evening met with an “UNRWA” delegation headed by UNRWA Director in Lebanon, Claudio Cordone, in the presence of World Health Organization representative in Lebanon, Iman Al-Shankiti, and head of the National Committee for the Management of the Vaccination dossier, Dr. Abdel-Rahman Al-Bizri. The meeting agreed...
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UNESCO launches an online course in Arabic on “Journalism in a pandemic: Covering COVID-19 now and in the future”
A Massive Open Online Course “Journalism in a Pandemic: Covering COVID 19 Now and in the Future”, offered by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin is now available in Arabic in a self-directed format. The UNESCO Beirut office has translated the material of the course into...
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Dutch police detain more than 150 in third night of curfew violence
Dutch police detained more than 150 people in a third night of unrest in cities across the Netherlands, where roaming groups of rioters set fires, threw rocks and looted stores in violence triggered by a night curfew aimed at curbing the coronavirus. The nation’s first curfew since World War Two followed a warning by the...
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Mexico passes 150,000 deaths from the coronavirus as pandemic deepens
Mexico’s official death toll from the coronavirus passed 150,000 on Monday following a surge in infections in recent weeks that has stretched the health system in the capital to the limit and led to the president contracting COVID-19. The Health Ministry on Monday reported 659 new deaths, bringing the total death toll to 150,273. There...
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Covid-19 vaccination platform to be launched tomorrow, Health Minister avows transparency, equality
Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Dr. Hamad Hassan, on Monday held an extensive meeting with concerned parties in preparation for the Covid-19 vaccination process. The meeting has confirmed that the official registration platform for the Coronavirus vaccine will be launched tomorrow (Tuesday) and that all the other platforms that have been promoted so far were...
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Covid condemns billions to poverty for a decade
The Covid-19 crisis is aggravating inequality, with the richest quickly getting richer while it will likely take years for the world’s poorest to recover, anti-poverty group Oxfam said Monday. In a report entitled “The inequality virus”, the group warned that the pandemic is the first time since records began that inequality is rising in virtually...
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Paris says Biden, Macron in agreement on COVID-19, climate change
French President Emmanuel Macron and new US President Joe Biden are in agreement on climate change and how to fight coronavirus, the Elysee palace said on Sunday. The two leaders spoke for the first time since Biden’s inauguration in a telephone call Sunday and also discussed “their willingness to act together for peace in the...
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Ministry of Health: 2,652 new coronavirus cases, 54 deaths
54 deaths have been registered over the The Ministry of Public Health announced 2,652 new cases of coronavirus infection, which raises the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 282,249. 54 deaths have been registered over the past 24 hours. past 24 hours.
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Health Minister, UNRWA discuss plan to vaccinate Palestinians
Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Dr. Hamad Hassan, on Monday met with an “UNRWA” delegation headed by UNRWA Director in Lebanon, Claudio Cordone, in the presence of World Health Organization representative in Lebanon, Iman Al-Shankiti, and head of the National Committee for the Management of the Vaccination dossier, Dr. Abdel-Rahman Al-Bizri. The meeting agreed on...
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Moderna says its vaccine effective against UK, South Africa mutant strain
US biotechnology firm Moderna on Monday said lab studies showed its Covid-19 vaccine would remain protective against variants of the coronavirus first identified in the United Kingdom and South Africa. But out of caution, the company will test adding a second booster of its vaccine — to make three shots in total — and has...