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  • Pfizer executives say Covid could become endemic by 2024

    Date: 2021-12-17 21:20:27 GMT - USA - World - SN:56 - ID:9324131

    WASHINGON, Dec 17 (MENA) - Covid will become an endemic disease as early as 2024, CNBC quoted Pfizer executives as saying Friday. Becoming an endemic means that the virus would transition from a global emergency to a constant presence causing ....

  • Canada lifts travel ban on Egypt, 9 African countries

    Date: 2021-12-17 20:07:03 GMT - Canada - World - SN:54 - ID:9324118

    OTTAWA, Dec 17 (MENA) - The federal government is lifting its widely criticized travel ban on 10 African countries, including Egypt, and reimposing its requirement for Canadians taking short trips abroad to get a COVID-19 test before returning to ....

  • NATO ready for dialogue with Russia if Moscow takes de-escalation measures

    Date: 2021-12-17 16:41:13 GMT - Russia - World - SN:44 - ID:9323917

    MOSCOW, Dec 17 (MENA) - The North Atlantic Council confirmed it had received Russia’s proposals on European security and said it was ready to engage in confidence-building dialogue if Moscow takes measures to reduce tensions, the NATO Council said ....

  • EU Commission head says booster shots should come within six months

    Date: 2021-12-17 16:27:44 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:43 - ID:9323884

    BRUSSELS, Dec 17 (MENA) - The European Commission is recommending vaccinated people receive booster doses no more than six months after their initial shots, with a further three month grace period for their Covid travel passes to be ....

  • G7 countries warn Omicron ‘biggest threat to global public health’

    Date: 2021-12-17 15:40:49 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:41 - ID:9323837

    LONDON, Dec 17 (MENA) - Health ministers from the G7 countries agreed that the Omicron coronavirus variant that is surging across Europe and other parts of the world is the "biggest threat to global public health", Politico reported ....

  • Denmark closes theatres, museums as Omicron cases surge

    Date: 2021-12-17 15:36:03 GMT - Denmark - World - SN:40 - ID:9323865

    COPENHAGEN, Dec 17 (MENA) - Denmark announced on Friday that it would close cinemas, theatres, museums and other public venues in an attempt to curb record-high COVID-19 cases driven by the highly transmissible new Omicron variant, euronews ....

  • Talks proposals from Russia 'seen', in contact with European allies - WH

    Date: 2021-12-17 15:08:07 GMT - USA - World - SN:37 - ID:9323710

    WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (MENA) - White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the United States has seen proposals from Russia to start talks that could help defuse the crisis over Ukraine and is speaking with its European allies and partners, The Hill ....

  • German health minister warns of fifth omicron wave

    Date: 2021-12-17 14:28:40 GMT - Germany - World - SN:33 - ID:9323715

    BERLIN, Dec 17 (MENA) - German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach warned Friday of a "massive fifth wave" of the coronavirus the country is facing with the arrival of the omicron variant, Deutche Welle reported. At a press conference in Hanover, ....

  • Daesh adherent collared in Moscow for trying to recruit college students

    Date: 2021-12-17 12:17:14 GMT - Russia - World - SN:24 - ID:9323549

    MOSCOW, Dec 17 (MENA) - A Daesh supporter has been detained in Moscow for plotting to lure students from the Russian Technological University into religious extremist and terrorist activities, the press service of the Russian Federal Security ....

  • Poland says 3-year old girl infected with omicron

    Date: 2021-12-17 10:51:08 GMT - Poland - World - SN:19 - ID:9323415

    WARSAW, Dec 17 (MENA) - Poland has reported its second omicron infection in the capital Warsaw. "We have a second case of an omicron in Poland," informed the Ministry of Health on Twitter Friday. "A three-year-old girl living in Warsaw is ....

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