Information Ministry is to arrange for PCR tests to be conducted for its employees, as requested by Information Minister Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, upcoming Wednesday as of 10 a.m. NNA

Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, said Wednesday that there will be endeavors to make the increase of wages a priority for the government, once the USD to LBP exchange rate is officially fixed.   Her remarks came during a meeting with a delegation of Syndicate of Lebanese Press Design ...

China has approved an early-stage trial in humans of German firm BioNTech’s experimental coronavirus vaccine, its local partner Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical said on Thursday. The potential vaccine is one of the two most advanced candidates that BioNTech is working on with its partner Pfizer and they received “fast track” status this week from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

One of the few upsides of lockdown was that, if a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square, you had a chance of hearing it. City dwellers across the globe delighted in the silence, the freedom from the incessant rumble of traffic, and the joy of birdsong. How cleaner the air seemed, ...

A mass extinction which played a role in the development of human life hundreds of millions of years ago may have been caused by climate change damaging the ozone layer, according to research. Scientists have found a major extinction event in the Late Devonian period could have been sparked by ...

The project, called Sodar, can be accessed by anyone with an Android smartphone and the Google Chrome browser   Google has a new, experimental augmented reality project called “Sodar”, which creates a virtual six-feet or two-metre radius ring around you that’s visible on your phone. Augmented reality is when virtual ...

A Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine could be ready for market as early as the end of this year, China’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) said in a social media post. In trials, more than 2,000 people have received vaccines developed by the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products and the ...

Embracing that reality is crucial to the next phase of America’s pandemic response, experts say. There’s a good chance the coronavirus will never go away. Even after a vaccine is discovered and deployed, the coronavirus will likely remain for decades to come, circulating among the world’s population. Experts call such ...

Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Abdul-Latif Derian, received on Tuesday, in Dar al-Fatwa, Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd. After the meeting, Abdel Samad said: “Our visit to the Mufti came to thank him and thank all the clergy for their patriotic stances and their sober and moderate speech ...

Apple and Google on Wednesday released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus. The companies said 22 countries and several U.S. states are already planning to build voluntary phone apps using their software. It relies on Bluetooth wireless technology to detect ...