Category: Health Protection

New COVID-19 variant found in UK

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced Saturday that a new Covid-19 variant has been identified in the country and also detected in the United States, Denmark and Israel. The agency published an initial risk assessment of the SARS-CoV-2 varia…

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Palestinian injured by Israeli army dies of wounds

A Palestinian man died Saturday of serious wounds he suffered three days ago by Israeli army fire in a refugee camp near Nablus north of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced. The man succumbed to head wounds he sustained d…

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KUWAIT DETECTS ‘EXPECTED’ NEW EG.5 COVID VARIANT

Kuwait’s Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday that it had detected the EG.5 a COVID variant belonging to a subset of the virus. According to a health official cited by Kuwait’s news agency KUNA, the identification of the variant was in line with ex…

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