The Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines have been “highly effective” in reducing coronavirus infections and severe illness among elderly people in Britain, with a more than 80 percent reduction in hospitalisation, official data showed Monday. In the over 80s, a single dose of either vaccine is more than 80 percent effective ...

The Regional Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the Middle East and North Africa organised a virtual symposium, on Data Collection and Management in Cases of Enforced Disappearance and Approaching the Process in Lebanon. The symposium was held under the patronage of His Excellency MP Dr. Michel ...

In collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Information publishes on its website a list of Frequently Asked Questions about the anti-Coronavirus vaccine and answers provided by a specialized medical scientific committee formed by the MoPH, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the UNICEF. FAQs about COVID-19 ...

The UK and California variants of coronavirus appear to have combined into a heavily mutated hybrid, sparking concern that we may be entering a new phase of the covid-19 pandemic Two variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes covid-19 have combined their genomes to form a heavily mutated hybrid version of the virus. The ...

Caretaker Information Minister, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, stressed, in an interview with Al-Jadid TV, that “everyone must play their role.” “As a Minister of Information, I managed between the media and the government, and my primary role was to organize, solve the problems of media institutions and convey their ...

Caretaker Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Thursday mourned, in a tweet, Press photographer, Marwan Assaf, who passed away at dawn. Minister Abdel Samad eulogized the late Assaf who has left behind an archive full of thousands of beautiful pictures and a good memory of professionalism, vitality and ...

The United Arab Emirates has made history as the first Arab country to reach Mars. The Emirates Mars mission, named the Hope probe, reached the red planet at 7:42 p.m. Tuesday UAE time, and sent its signal back to Earth just over half an hour later. The ground control team ...

In collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Information publishes on its website a list of Frequently Asked Questions about the anti-Coronavirus vaccine and answers provided by a specialized medical scientific committee formed by the MoPH, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the UNICEF. The list includes ...

Climate change may have played a “key role” in the transmission of the novel coronavirus to humans by driving several species of pathogen-carrying bats into closer contact, research showed on Friday. The virus, which has killed more than two million people and caused unprecedented global disruption, is thought to have ...

Britain’s Oxford University said on Friday its researchers behind the joint AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine had found it to be effective against the UK virus variant now dominant across the country. The university, which developed the jab with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm, said an ongoing assessment of its effectiveness showed that ...