Covid-19 cases in the besieged Gaza Strip have been rising at an alarming rate with daily positive results reaching 43%

Egyptian pharmaceutical firm Minapharm has agreed to produce more than 40 million doses a year of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Reuters reported the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which markets...

Reporters Without Borders has said that the MENA region is the "toughest and most dangerous for journalists" following the publication of its yearly report which ranks 180 countries and...

Jordan did not receive medical aid from Israel, state-owned Petra quoted an official source as saying yesterday. "Jordan has enough Covid-19 tests, secured its needs of ventilators and facial...

Fifty Egyptian doctors have died of coronavirus in the past two weeks alone, bringing the number of those who have succumbed to the virus to 466, the Egyptian Medical Association...

According to an official reported issued on Tuesday by the Israeli Ministry of Finance, Israel's debt has jumped to NIS 984 ($302 billion). Compared with 2019, the debt has...

Northwest Syria received its first batch of coronavirus vaccinations through the global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX on Wednesday with inoculations set to start May 1. Reuters reports. A total of...

The United Arab Emirates has warned it could impose restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 as the region's business and tourism hub pushes its immunisation...

At least eight people in Israel are known to have the Indian variant of Covid-19, the ministry of health revealed on Tuesday. A ministry official said that the Pfizer/BioNTech...

Yemen's COVID-19 vaccination campaign began in government-held areas on Tuesday three weeks after the first shipment from the global COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme arrived in the war-torn country, Reuters reported. Yemen on...

Egypt has agreed to purchase 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinopharm and expects to receive a batch of 500,000 shots this month, Reuters reported its Ministry...

In Turkey, second only to India in new coronavirus cases, a recent surge has brought active infections to a peak equivalent to nearly one per cent of working-age people,...

Medical professionals in Sohag Governorate are calling for urgent measures to combat a sharp rise in coronavirus cases as hospitals turn patients away. Head of the doctor's union in...

Covid-19 cases in occupied Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip, have reached record highs, largely due to the arrival of a greatly contagious coronavirus variant which was first identified...

Israel has lifted a public mask mandate and fully reopened its education system in the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions following its mass vaccination drive

The besieged Gaza Strip yesterday recorded the highest number of COVID-19 fatalities, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the coastal enclave said. According to the daily briefing issued by...

Israeli occupation authorities have prevented thousands of Palestinian worshippers from the occupied West Bank from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,...

Kuwait is set to implement value-added and excise taxes amid popular opposition due to the cash crisis resulting from COVID-19 and the instability of oil prices, The New Khalij...

Turkey's donation of 150,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Libya has been shipped by air, according to the Turkish National Defense Ministry on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. "With the completion...

President Bashar al-Assad has dismissed Syria's Central Bank Governor Hazem Karfoul, the state news agency reported on Tuesday, Reuters reported. It did not immediately say whether Assad had appointed a replacement...

The humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is worsening as health officials report more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases daily. They warn of a healthcare catastrophe under an Israeli-led...

Russia is temporarily suspending regular and charter flights with Turkey, Moscow announced Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. The suspension over COVID-19 concerns will last from April 15 to June 1, said Deputy...

Jewish groups have called on America's Chief Medical Adviser to the President, Dr Anthony Fauci, not to legitimise "apartheid" Israel by accepting a prominent prize from the Zionist state....

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Iraq said on Sunday it has received the first batch of the German-American Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, Anadolu Agency reported. "Iraq received 50,000 doses out of three million it has ordered from...

Iran reported 258 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Sunday, the highest daily toll since early December, Reuters reported. That brings the total number...

Libya's new unity government launched a long-delayed COVID-19 vaccination programme on Saturday after receiving some 160,000 vaccine doses over the past week, with the prime minister receiving his jab...

The Saudi Ministry of Interior has decided to fine anyone attempting to perform Umrah without obtaining a permit with 10,000 Saudi riyals. The ministry stated that the implementation of...

Tunisia's Ministry of Religious Affairs announced on Thursday that citizens are allowed to perform prayers in mosques, including the Friday prayer, outside of curfew hours. This came in a...

Iran's Ministry of Health today reported nearly 21,000 COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day figure since the first case was detected in February 2020 in the country, Reuters reported local media saying....

Morocco will keep its nightly curfew in place during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan when people gather after breaking their fast at sunset, Reuters reported the government announcing today. The...

Dubai will offer COVID-19 vaccines to all official representatives of countries participating in EXPO 2020, due to be held from October 2021 to March 2022, the state-run news agency WAM reported....