Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, received this Friday the French ambassador to Lebanon, Anne Grillo, with talks touching on Lebanese-French relations.   Abdel Samad thanked Abdel “French President Emmanuel Macron for his efforts to push for the formation of a government in Lebanon.” She also praised France’s “humanitarian ...

British researchers are to explore mixing doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in a world first trial aimed at finding new ways to swiftly reduce coronavirus infections as new mutated variants emerge. While thousands of individual changes have arisen as the virus mutates on replication and evolves into ...

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 ...

The emergence of several, more infectious strains of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has worried governments and scientists, who are investigating how and why the virus became more transmissible. Like all viruses, SARS-CoV-2 mutates in order to maximise its survival chances. When it replicates, tiny errors in its genetic coding are ...

Freezing RNA-based vaccines keeps their fragile components from breaking down   Pfizer is racing to get approval for its COVID-19 vaccine, applying for emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on November 20. But the pharmaceutical giant faces a huge challenge in distributing its vaccine, which has to be ...

Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, received this Wednesday Head of the Press Syndicate, Awni Al-Kaaki, and producer Sadiq Al-Sabah, who said after the meeting: “We, the Association of TV and Film Producers in Lebanon, have explained to Minister Abdel Samad the problems of the sector as a result ...

“I would hold him, he would fall asleep, and he would wake up every 30 minutes crying,” said Joseph Dunn. His son was diagnosed with MIS-C. Doctors at Rady Children’s Hospital said Monday they’re seeing more kids diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome or MIS-C. Experts said just as we’ve seen ...

On December 18, a San Diego emergency room nurse was given a shot of the Covid-19 vaccine. A week later, he tested positive for the virus, CNN affiliate KGTV reported. Stories like this will become more common as millions of Americans are administered the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines over the coming ...

WHO stresses need for measures like physical distancing, hand washing and mask wearing to rein in the pandemic. Herd immunity will not be achieved this year despite COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out in a number of countries, the World Health Organization has warned. Last month, the United Kingdom became the ...

The Earth is moving faster than it ever has in the last 50 years, scientists have discovered, and could result in a ‘negative leap second’ being added to the year. The speed of the Earth’s rotation is affected by a number of factors, including the motion of its molten core, oceans, and ...