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More than 540 million people have been reported to be infected with Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) globally, and over 1 million deaths, according to a recent tally by Worldometers. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since

The United Arab Emirates recently sent a plane full of medical supplies to Senegal in an attempt to deal with the effects of the fire that broke out in the neonatal department at the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh hospital

In Yemen, the first phase of the largest hospital in Shabwa Governorate was inaugurated by a delegation from the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation. Implemented under the supervision of H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister,

In response to a spike in COVID-19 cases in the Chinese capital Beijing, the city has started mass testing for its millions of residents. In Beijing’s Chaoyang district, 26 cases have been reported over the weekend, the highest number so

An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been declared by the health authorities after a case was confirmed there, in Mbandaka, a city in the north-western Equateur Province. In the province, this is the third

COVID-19 measures taken by authorities in China this week have become more stringent and include mass disinfection of homes and preventing those infected from leaving their homes. Authorities in Shanghai have said they will tighten lockdown enforcement, as the pandemic

China’s National Health Commission (NHC) reported 3,867 newly-confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday, of which 3,590 occurred in Shanghai. Besides Shanghai, 14 other provinces have also recorded COVID-19 cases, including 195 in Jilin, in the northeast. Social media is flooded with

For the fourth day in a row, the number of COVID-19 cases in South Korea reached 200,000 due to an increase in the number of infections. According to authorities, as of Thursday alone, there were 621,328 new cases of the

Approximately 16 million residents of Shanghai are being tested for COVID-19 during the second stage of the lockdown, which moved to the western half of China’s biggest city and financial capital on Friday. In the meantime, residents of Shanghai’s eastern

The Communicable Disease Centre (CDC) at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) continues to educate the Qatar community about TB and work towards its eradication worldwide in honor of World TB Day on March 24. Dr Muna al-Maslamani, director of the CDC,