Hospitals in Lebanon have reached full capacity due to Covid

Israel will start vaccinating all prisoners, including Palestinian detainees, from next week as part of its nationwide anti-Covid-19 programme, the Minister of Health has confirmed. "We are adhering to...

Qatar has been removed from Britain's safe travel corridor list, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps explained to the BBC on Thursday. The Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and...

Gulf based executives have warned of a "credibility gap" after Saudi Arabia announced that it was committing itself to step up domestic investment following the double shock of low...

A source in the Federation of Industries has told Al-Manassa that Egypt's hospital oxygen crisis is due to the government's failure to pay its EGP 2 billion ($128 million)...

Across Palestine, schools are closed to try and stem the spread of the virus, but Al-Maleh Elementary has struggled to offer remote learning, because of the lack of internet and electricity in the village.

Turkey will send 20,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), the country's top health official said yesterday. According to Anadolu's Northern Cyprus office,...

Turkey will start countrywide COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday beginning with health workers, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday shortly after Sinovac's vaccine was granted emergency authorisation, Reuters reports....

Gaza, where the dense and poor population of 2 million is vulnerable to contagions, has logged 14,000 coronavirus cases and 65 deaths, mostly since August

An online petition has been launched in an effort to force Israel to address its discriminatory vaccine distribution policy and provide Palestinians living under its brutal occupation access to...

Tunisia will impose a four-day national lockdown from Thursday along with lesser measures lasting until January 24 to combat a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases, Health Minister Fouzi Mehdi...

Israel in 2020 suffered its highest-ever budget deficit of $50.4 billion (160.3 billion shekels), the Finance Ministry announced. Due to the harsh economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the...

Lebanese people lined up outside supermarkets and grocery stores in the capital Beirut and other cities to stock up on food as the government announced a tightening of its lockdown...

Oil prices declined today in light of renewed concerns about a shortage of global demand for fuel, amid the re-imposition of strict lockdown measures as coronavirus cases rise across...

Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, returned to Germany on Sunday to complete his treatment for COVID-19. Tebboune had travelled to Germany a few months ago to receive treatment, and returned to Algeria at the...

Israel's decision to exclude Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccination campaign may have surprised many. Even by Israel's poor humanitarian standards, denying Palestinians access to life-saving medication seems extremely callous....

Lebanon announced a tightening of its lockdown on Monday, introducing a 24-hour curfew from Thursday as COVID-19 infections overwhelm its medical system, reports Reuters. The new all-day curfew starts...

The health ministry of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has approved the main Russian vaccine against COVID-19, known as Sputnik V, for use in Palestinian self-ruled territory, Russia's sovereign wealth...

Further concerns have been raised over Israel's ongoing failure to include Palestinians in its COVID-19 vaccination programme dubbed by critics as "medical apartheid". The latest comes from Dr Yousef...

Pope Francis has stated that he is unsure about his historic trip to Iraq scheduled in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an interview yesterday evening with Italy's Canale 5 broadcasting...

Israel rejected the World Health Organisation's (WHO) informal request to immediately provide Palestinian medical staff COVID-19 vaccinations. The country has been widely criticised for intentionally barring Palestinians from getting vaccinated in...

Undersecretary of Egypt's Ministry of Health in Qalyubia Governorate has died from coronavirus two weeks after he contracted the virus. Hamdy El-Tabbakh died on Saturday evening at Agouza Hospital....

Egypt has collected six million Egyptian pounds ($383,691) worth of fines in one week from people found not to be wearing a face mask, reports the state-run Al-Ahram. Over 125,000...

Five Israeli human rights organisations have petitioned the Supreme Court against the Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana's directives to prevent Palestinians detained by Israel from receiving COVID-19 vaccinations...

The Palestinian Authority said on Sunday it expects to receive its first COVID-19 vaccine doses in March under a deal with drugmaker AstraZeneca, and accused Israel of shirking a...

Turkey reported over 9,000 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, Anadolu reports. A total of 9,138 fresh cases, including 1,017 symptomatic patients, were confirmed across the country, according to Health...

Three brothers from a single-family lost their lives to COVID-19 in the course of a month in Turkey's Black Sea province of Samsun, Anadolu reports. Selman Emirhan, a 33-year-old...

Foreign companies will not be allowed to test COVID-19 vaccines on the Iranian people, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday, a day after Iran's Supreme Leader banned vaccine imports...

Saudi Arabia's king received his first vaccine dose of the novel coronavirus Friday, according to state media, Anadolu Agency reports. The official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) posted two pictures...

The Israeli occupation army announced on Friday 1,149 COVID-19 cases among its soldiers, while 11,024 other soldiers are currently in quarantine, Anadolu Agency reported. The Israeli army statement noted...

Following media reports about Israel linking the entry of COVID-19 vaccines into Gaza with the release of an Israeli soldier, Israeli rights group Gisha-Maslak stressed that the entry of...

Palestine, Libya and Qatar announced more infections and deaths linked to the novel coronavirus on Friday as they continued efforts to contain the disease, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the...