The global effect of the coronavirus continued Wednesday as cases surpassed 905,200 globally, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University, Anadolu reports. The COVID-19 virus, which...

A UN human rights expert called on Tuesday for lifting international sanctions against countries ranging from Iran to North Korea and Venezuela to ensure that food supplies reach hungry...

Militants loyal to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen are reported to have stormed into the southern port of Aden and stolen medical aid donated by the...

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) signed an agreement yesterday with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to support the organisation’s effort to combat the outbreak of the...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen carried out several airstrikes on Monday on the capital Sanaa, witnesses and media said, killing dozens of horses at a...

More than 3,000 coronavirus test kits and 50,000 surgical masks have been delivered to the Palestinian Authority today by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Jerusalem Post has reported....

The World Health Organisation (WHO) in Yemen said yesterday that the country has no confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19. The WHO office in Yemen wrote...

A World Health Organisation delegation arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to assess the situation after the Gazan health ministry announced that two people have tested positive for...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday that governments in the Middle East are not providing it with sufficient information on coronavirus cases. The Director of the Eastern Mediterranean Regional...

I am in no way belittling the gravity of the coronavirus which the World Health Organisation classed as a pandemic, however, people have been intimidated by this virus and...

The World Health Organisation will start testing for coronavirus in opposition-held north-west Syria later this week, the agency’s regional head said yesterday. WHO team are hoping to have the...

Iran has postponed the second round of the country’s parliamentary elections as part of its fight against coronavirus, Anadolu Agency reports. The polls, originally slated for April 17, will be...

Libya is not in a position to confront the coronavirus if it arrives, the head of its disease control centre said on Thursday, calling for greater support to prepare...

Emirates, one of the world’s biggest international airlines, expects to cancel more flights and has frozen recruitment as it faces what could be its biggest challenge in many years,...

Iranian authorities failed to effectively implement quarantine measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, an Iranian virologist said Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. Officials should have taken strict measures before the virus...

The World Health Organization is characterising the outbreak of the new coronavirus as a pandemic, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. “We are deeply concerned both...

Royal Air Maroc airlines suspended all flights Tuesday to and from Italy because of fear about the novel coronavirus. The national carrier said the decision came in response to a...

Israel’s Health Ministry reported eight new coronavirus cases Tuesday, bringing total infections in the country to 58. A number of people were diagnosed with the virus after recently returning from...

Arab silence on the looming genocide of the Uyghur Muslims in China is deafening. Supposedly influential and powerful Arab states look on as the persecution continues. There are an...

Israel decided to close its borders with Syria and Lebanon amid rising fears of a coronavirus outbreak, the country’s state media reported on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. According to the Israeli...

Iran yesterday cancelled Friday prayers across all the country’s cities this week amid the country’s growing coronavirus outbreak. The move came after the Iranian National Committee on Combatting Coronavirus recently announced...

Basic health care provision for vulnerable Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank is under threat due to a shortfall in funding. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO),...

Saudi Arabia yesterday announced launching a new electronic system to enable Umrah pilgrims, which have been cancelled as a result of the coronavirus, to get refunds . In an...

The rapid spread of the coronavirus increased fears of a pandemic on Friday, with six countries reporting their first cases and the World Health Organization (WHO) raising its global...

Lebanon confirmed the first coronavirus case on Friday

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday announced another case of coronavirus, raising the number of confirmed cases to eight, according to the official Emirates News Agency (WAM). The UAE...

Flights carrying patients needing urgent medical attention began from the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, a long-sought confidence-building measure in diplomatic efforts to...

Nearly 130,000 civilians have been displaced in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. Some 12 million people are in need of medical assistance...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday that nearly 70,000 men, women and children in Yemen have lost their lives or been seriously injured as a result of...

The rate of delivery of caesarean sections, within the private health sector institutions in Libya, has increased by 90 per cent, compared to 2017, according to a recent study....

A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report said 2018 saw an “unprecedented” number of attacks on healthcare by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The report, “Right...

There have been five confirmed deaths from cholera in Sudan’s Blue Nile state since August 28, the health ministry said in a statement, reports Reuters. The ministry reported 67...