Category: Medical Management

A variant of the novel coronavirus already accounts for about half of new infections in the Brazilian Amazonian city of Manaus, raising concerns about a greater risk of spread, a researcher warned on Friday.   A team led by immunologist Ester Sabino collected genomic data from COVID-19 tests in Manaus that indicated 42 percent of the confirmed cases were infected

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday will sign orders to speed the issuance of pandemic stimulus checks to needy families and increase food aid for children who normally rely on school meals for nutrition.   Biden is using the two executive orders to try to ease people’s burdens while Congress negotiates the fate of his proposed $1.9 trillion stimulus package.

The number of citizens who received the Covid-19 vaccine doses in Aqaba governorate has reached about 545 since the start of the national immunization campaign countrywide a week ago, according to a medical source.   In a press statement, director of Aqaba health affairs, Dr. Saeb Abu Aboud, said the turnout to receive the vaccine in the port city of

Director General of the Department of Palestinian Affairs, Rafiq Kharfan, discussed with Director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Affairs in Jordan, Marta Lorenzo, issues of mutual interest, mainly the agency’s programs in light of the coronavirus pandemic, including the vaccination program.   In a statement on Tuesday, the department said

COVID-19 killed 8 in Jordan within the last 24 hours, as the death toll stands at 4,153, and a total of 1,030 cases were recorded Monday, pushing the caseload to some 315,540, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).   Breaking down today’s tally, the MoH said that 434 COVID-19 cases were recorded in Amman, 238 in Irbid, 89 in

A total of 3654 COVID-19 cases were recorded in Lebanon Sunday, pushing the caseload nationwide to more than 252812, according to the Lebanon Ministry of Public Health.   COVID-19 killed 40 people with in the last 24 hours, it added.   Source: Jordan News Agency