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Cairo airport, Egypt The Egyptian government suspended direct flights with a number of southern African countries due to concerns over the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. The decision was made late on Friday after a meeting of the ministerial crisis management committee headed by Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, according to a cabinet statement. The direct flight suspension …
TUNIS, TUNUSIA – JUNE 22: A view of Covid-19 patients in Ibn Jarrah hospital at quarantined Kayravan province of Tunis, Tunisia on June 22, 2021. (Photo by Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) The Tunisian Ministry of Health announced on Saturday new measures for arrivals from abroad to prevent …
An Airbus SE A380-800 aircraft, operated by Emirates, taxis at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Monday, March 23, 2020. Photographer: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg via Getty Images Nigeria announced Saturday the lifting of a flight ban on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Emirates Airlines. According to a statement …
South African scientists have detected a new COVID-19 variant in small numbers. /VCG
The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries on Saturday, just days after being identified in South Africa, leaving governments around the world scrambling to stop …
World nations gather Monday to thrash out whether to pursue a pandemic treaty setting out how to handle the next crisis which experts fear is only a matter of time besieged by COVID-19, nearly two years on from the first recorded cases.
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