Coronavirus

Saudi Arabia's sports fans will be allowed to attend full-capacity events at all stadiums and other sports facilities starting on Sunday, the country's ministry of sports announced in a...

The United Arab Emirates on Sunday recorded a drop in daily COVID-19 cases to below 100 for the first time since the start of the outbreak last year as...

Egypt ranks fifth worldwide in underreporting coronavirus and first in the Middle East, according to a report published by the World Bank. According to the report, Egypt's ratio of...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has offered new financing to the Middle East and North Africa worth $16.6 billion to overcome the COVID-19 crisis, Anadolu reported yesterday. According to the report,...

Due to the pandemic, the economies of the Middle East and North Africa region will continue to incur losses of around $200 billion until the end of 2021, the...

After unprecedented raids in western Libya, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) warns that detained migrants are reporting serious abuse, violence and a lack of access to basic services. More...

Qatar and UAE are reportedly looking to host this year's Club World Cup following Japan's decision to withdraw from holding the competition last month due to coronavirus concerns. Football...

An OPEC+ ministerial panel gathered today to discuss the latest oil prices and decided to follow an existing pact to hike oil output by 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) in...

Expo 2020 Dubai, a major world fair that opened last week, on Sunday said three workers on the project had died after contracting COVID-19, revising up the number of...

Palestine Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has today reinstated the state of emergency in the occupied West Bank for 30 days following an increase in the number of coronavirus...

Egypt will ban state employees who have not received the covid vaccine from entering their workplace, Cabinet spokesman, Nader Saad, said. "Any employee who refuses to be vaccinated or...

Egypt has recorded the highest death toll from coronavirus in over three months as the country grapples with its fourth wave, with cases rising since the beginning of September....

The year 2020 was the worst for the Palestinian Authority (PA) since its establishment in 1994 due to the Israeli occupation and the coronavirus pandemic, the UN Conference on...

Jordan said today that Crown Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah had contracted coronavirus, Reuters reports. "His Highness Prince Hussein, who had received the vaccine against the coronavirus, showed mild symptoms and...

Hundreds of thousands of migrant and refugee children are missing in Europe, with no one knowing what happened to them, according to a member of the Turkish delegation to...

With the arrival of the Hebrew New Year, the Israeli security and military forums have been busy monitoring the main challenges facing the country, as it continues to suffer...

Tunisia will entirely lift its nightly curfew against COVID-19 from Saturday, Reuters reported the presidency saying today, after about a year after the policy came into force. In October 2020, Tunisia announced a...

Yemen today received its third batch of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX global vaccine-sharing scheme, Reuters reported the health ministry saying. A delivery of 356,000 shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived...

Qatar wants all footballers coming into the country to take part in the World Cup 2022 to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the Athletic reports. The Gulf country has already revealed that...

The United Arab Emirates central bank sees increased risks of illicit financial flows emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, including money-laundering and terrorism financing, it said in a report published...

The UK today removed Turkey from its red coronavirus travel list, allowing travel without compulsory hotel quarantine on arrival, and so easing travel and tourism between the two countries,...

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Monday that it has received 50,000 expired Covid-19 vaccine doses sent by the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. It blamed Israel...

A total of $20 billion was transferred out of Egypt within four to six weeks after the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Egyptian Minister of Finance, Mohamed Maait, announced...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday that it expects Oman's economy to recover this year with a projected growth of 2.5 per cent, spurred by non-hydrocarbon GDP growth...

Sources in Egypt's Ministry of Health have said that coronavirus in the country has reached a dangerous level due to the government's neglect of precautionary measures. The state has...

A campaign to vaccinate secondary school students against the coronavirus was launched in Gaza

Almost 33,000 children have been killed and maimed in Afghanistan over the past 20 years, an average of one child every five hours, Save the Children said as the...

Yemen received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines made by Johnson & Johnson on Sunday, roughly 151,000 doses, the health ministry said, reports Reuters. The desperately poor country, where...

A senior Egyptian official said the mortality rate as a result of the new wave of COVID-19 is likely to increase after three weeks, after recording a significant rise...

In another indication of what has been described as a geo-political reset in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Qatar signed an agreement yesterday for establishing a coordination council...

Israeli occupation authorities yesterday announced that a few more commodities would be allowed into the besieged Gaza Strip. "Following a security assessment and approved by the political level, it...

An Algerian plane loaded with medical supplies and oxygen yesterday landed at Tunis-Carthage International Airport, the Tunisian presidency said in a statement. The aircraft was carrying 200,000 doses of...