Permits to perform Umrah and prayers in the Grand Mosque and to visit the Prophet’s Mosque, will only be issued to people who have received two doses of the kingdom’s approved coronavirus vaccines
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Saudi Arabia to restrict key services to double jabbed people from October 10
Two doses of approved vaccines will be required to enter government, private and educational activities, events and facilities and use of public transportation
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Developer of one of the leading Covid-19 vaccines hails ‘strong efforts’ from key senior UAE stakeholders
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Bahrain’s Gulf Air says all staff vaccinated on flights from Thursday
National carrier of Bahrain says it started its internal vaccination campaign for its operating crew and front line staff in December
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WHO approves Sinopharm vaccine, boosting Gulf-European travel hopes
World Health Organisation has given an emergency use listing to Sinopharm, China’s Covid-19 vaccine
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Covid-19 jabs to be provided for all country officials at Expo 2020 Dubai
Executive Council of Dubai says vaccinations will be offered to officials representing nearly 200 countries at mega event starting in October
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Dubai to vaccinate 100% of eligible adults for coronavirus by end of year
“We are planning for 100% of eligible adults by the end of the fourth quarter of this year,” Amer Sharif, the head of Dubai’s Covid-19 Command and Control Centre, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV.
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India will begin commercial shipments of Covid-19 vaccines to Brazil and Morocco on Friday, followed by Saudi Arabia and South Africa
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New sectors and opportunities could arise in the Middle East as governments continue diversifying their economies following the coronavirus pandemic and oil price shock that dealt the region a “double whammy,” says Stergios Voskopoulos, CEO of Kanoo Capital.
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Video: How long does it take to recover from coronavirus?
More than 1.1 million people have recovered from coronavirus globally, but the time it takes to recover can vary. Most people will only develop mild symptoms, which usually take a week to recover from, maybe longer. In more serious cases, it could be more than a year.
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Both the government and the pharmaceutical companies are racing to develop a treatment to end the Covid-19 pandemic, and their new workflow might entirely change how the medical industry responds to pandemics forever.
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As doctors and scientists around the world are struggling to cope with this crisis, there’s one treatment that’s starting to slowly prove effective for critical sufferers. It’s not a recent innovation either.
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A vaccine for the deadly coronavirus could be years away and the world can’t wait that long. But what if there was a cure that already existed? While big pharma races to make a new drug, some scientists are looking at what we already have on our shelves.
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The government has pledged $23m towards Covid-19 research including a new network of leading genetics institutions to trace the evolution of the pandemic in real time.
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Video: Are there more silent coronavirus spreaders than we thought?
Scientists are calling for urgent studies to determine the proportion of people with coronavirus who show no, or delayed, symptoms amid concern that the number of silent carriers may be greater than previously thought.