Egypt Today Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Usama Rabie said on Tuesday, that all precautionary measures were adopted for ships transiting the international waterway because of fears that Coronavirus is spreading in many countries. In a press release, Rabie said, “coordination is maintained with the Health Ministry” …
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Ahram Online There may have been limited human-to-human transmission of a new coronavirus in China within families, and it is possible there could be a wider outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can cause infections ranging from the common …
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Egypt Today Asyut University has announced a precision transplant surgery of the left hand of a man was carried out successfully after he had his hand was severed in a car accident. The university’s hospital received 23 years old Ahmed S., who had his left hand severed. Having been referred …
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Ahram Online Speaking after a two-day meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, Kate O’Brien, the WHO’s director of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, said the world “is facing an alarming upsurge in measles cases in all regions”. “The impact of these outbreaks is really devastating,” she …
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Egypt Today The death toll in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s largest ever Ebola outbreak has now reached more than 2,000 people, with few signs that it will soon be contained. The country has been fighting the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever for more than a year, but the grim …
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Egypt Today As weather experts warned of a heat wave hitting the country, raising the temperature degrees to highs of 40°C and 42°C on Wednesday and Thursday, citizens are advised to avoid heat-related illness during the fasting hours of Ramadan. Prolonged direct exposure to sun during extreme heat could …
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Egypt is preparing a range of practical initiatives that will help transform the continent as it gears up to take over the chairmanship of the African Union in January next year, writes Mohamed Higazy Mohamed Higazy In January next year, Egypt will begin its one-year stint as chair of the …
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Egypt Independent A child is born every 15 seconds in Egypt, and the number of population increases by two million annually – which is equal to the population of a whole state – according to Amr Hassan, Rapporteur of the Population Council. Hassan stressed the importance of state efforts …
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AhramOnLine (MENA) President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi discussed cooperation projects with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim between Egypt and the bank in various fields, including health, education, economic, and social development in a meeting on Monday in New York. In the meeting, Al-Sisi discussed cooperation projects in the healthcare and education …
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Hend El-Behary – Egypt Independent The World Bank has approved a $300 million loan to complete Egypt’s Rural Sanitation Services Program, expanding the government efforts to improve sanitation in the rural areas of Egypt’s poorest governorates. Samia Mosadek, acting Regional Director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti at the World Bank, …
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