Footage of corpses stored improperly near garbage at a Tunisian hospital has sent shockwaves across the country

Iranians are marking a quiet Eid al-Adha on Wednesday amid a stringent lockdown in the capital Tehran and adjoining provinces over a fresh wave of the pandemic, Anadolu Agency reported. The...

Tunisia's premier sacked the country's health minister on Tuesday after a collapse in the healthcare system due to surging cases of COVID-19, Anadolu Agency reported. The office of Prime Minister Hichem...

The bidding process for the hosting rights for the 2027 Asian Cup has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will be held in 2022 instead of this...

Iran imposed a one-week lockdown in the capital and a nearby province on Tuesday as daily COVID-19 caseloads hit a record high amid a fifth wave of the pandemic,...

Turkey has administered nearly 63.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines since it launched a mass vaccination campaign in January, according to figures released on Monday, reports Anadolu Agency. The...

US President Joe Biden hosted Jordan's King Abdullah at the White House on Monday in a meeting that spanned a range of issues, including the coronavirus pandemic and the...

Muslim pilgrims vaccinated against COVID-19 gathered on Sunday for the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, which has barred worshippers from abroad for a second year running due to...

Tunisia's Ennahda Movement on Friday abruptly announced the suspension of consultations to form the government due to the massive spread of COVID-19 in the country. The movement's spokesperson Fathi...

Since the beginning of July, Tunisia has recorded the highest coronavirus death rate across the eastern Mediterranean and Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Thursday. "The situation...

The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq confirmed today the first cases of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus, Anadolu Agency reports. "I want to officially...

A surge of coronavirus cases in several Middle Eastern countries could have dire consequences, aggravated by the spread of the Delta variant and low vaccine availability, the World Health...

With 28 more fatalities recorded on Tuesday, the death toll from a fire that engulfed Monday evening the COVID-19 isolation ward of a hospital in southern Iraq reached 92,...

Renowned Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur is auctioning her racket to raise funds for her country’s battle against coronavirus

The Tunisian president has pledged to deliver coronavirus vaccines throughout the country, calling on politicians to stop exploiting the difficult circumstances of the pandemic. After receiving the first dose...

The death toll from the fire that broke out yesterday evening in an isolation ward for coronavirus patients in a hospital in Dhi Qar Governorate, southern Iraq, has risen...

Israel said on Sunday it will begin offering a third dose of Pfizer Inc's vaccine to adults with weak immune systems but it was still weighing whether to make...

Newly appointed Algerian Prime Minister Aymen Benabderrahmane is infected with COVID-19, Reuters reported Algerian state TV as saying on Saturday. The prime minister, who had just formed his new...

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday decided that the armed forces, in coordination with civilian medical staff, would survey the entire country to vaccinate citizens against COVID-19 in light...

From 16 July, travellers entering Israel will need to isolate for 24 hours or quarantine for up to 14 days, the Israeli Ministry of Health announced on Friday. All...

A spokeswoman for the Tunisian Ministry of Health said on Thursday that the country's healthcare sector is on the verge of collapse, with intensive care units full and medical...

The Public Prosecution Office of the Court of Sousse 2 issued an order to cancel the extraordinary conference of the Tunisian General Labour Union which was scheduled to be...

An index of the world's safest countries in terms of Covid-19 infections has placed Iran at 106th out of 134, the lowest ranking for a Middle East Country. In...

Adults in England's poorest areas are almost four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than those in the wealthiest areas, an inquiry into the pandemic's impacts has discovered....

Egypt registered a 14.9% increase in deaths in the first half of 2021 compared with the same period in 2020, the country's statistics agency CAPMAS said on Monday, without...

Israel is in talks with other countries about a deal to unload its surplus of Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccines, doses of which are due to expire by the end of...

Iran may face a fifth wave of COVID-19 infections as the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads through the Middle East's worst-hit country, President Hassan Rouhani warned...

Saudi has arrested a number of employees from the Ministry of Health on suspicion that they modified residents' coronavirus vaccination records in exchange for fees. The Saudi Control and...

The Ministry of Health in Gaza has raised the level of preparedness in anticipation of the entry of new strains of coronavirus, including the Indian variant, the Deputy Director...

Egypt has domestically produced its first 300,000-dose batch of China's Sinovac coronavirus vaccine, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday. Health Minister Hala Zayed told reporters that the doses were...

Iraqi health authorities have vaccinated prisoners against the coronavirus in all detention facilities across the country, according to the Justice Ministry on Wednesday, Reuters reports. "Visits were resumed after...

The Ministry of Health in Israel has announced that 293 people tested positive for Covid-19 out of 63,000 who took the tests on Tuesday. This was the highest number...