Residents who are staying back in Dubai this summer can enjoy a free mega Online Summer Health extravaganza during summer break. Thumbay Hospital’s Summer Health Festival 2021 carrying the message of ‘Touching Life, Health for All’. The virtual event that starts on July 1 and runs until August 31, is a family health carnival. The […]
Anila Gonsalves always knew that being a mother comes with its fair share of responsibilities and challenges, but little did she know that motherhood would also bring out the innovator in her. This is her story; a mother who became an innovator with the creation of a mobile app, FABULAA. Her inspiration is her older […]
ABU DHABI, 19th February, 2021- The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has announced that 93,101 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered in the past 24 hours. The total number of doses provided up to today stands at 5,466,831 with a rate of vaccine distribution of 55.27 doses per 100 people. This is in […]
3rd February 2021 – The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 173,952 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Wednesday, the Ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases […]
With demand for COVID-19 vaccines outpacing the world’s supplies, a frustrated public and policymakers want to know: How can we get more? A lot more. Right away. The problem: “It’s not like adding more water to the soup,” said vaccine specialist Maria Elena Bottazzi of Baylor College of Medicine. Makers of COVID-19 vaccines need everything […]
The 11th edition of Pink Caravan Ride, an annual breast cancer awareness initiative of UAE-based non-profit Friends of Cancer Patients (FOCP), will ride into 2021 in a unique format in February with the participation of equestrian clubs from every emirate, and will be marked by 42 days of free health screenings for men and women […]
LONDON, 3rd January, 2021 – More than 84 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,829,384 have died, according to a Reuters tally published on Sunday. With 347,950 deaths and over 20.1 million confirmed cases, the United States tops the list of twenty countries with the highest recorded […]
Dubai launched its “extensive” and “free-of-charge” vaccine campaign Wednesday after the first batch of Pfizer BioNTech shipment landed in the emirate. Over the past 24 hours, several citizens have lined up from the jab including staff and officials from Dubai Health Authority (DHA) and Dubai Police, as well as a senior Emirati citizen. As per […]
The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine began its roll-out in the emirates earlier this week in an extensive campaign kicked off by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) The first to receive the jabs included a senior Emirati citizen, a DHA nurse, a paramedic, a staff member from Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority (RTA) and a Dubai Police […]
Dubai received its first shipment of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine against coronavirus early Wednesday, authorised by the Ministry of Health and Prevention for “extensive and free-of-charge” inoculations. The decision comes in response to a request by Pfizer to approve its emergency registration so that concerned health authorities can import the vaccine after fulfilling all international criteria […]
In yet another sobering hurdle for Great Britain — thought to finally be on the cusp of recovery from their leaden pandemic blues — a new strain of the coronavirus has cropped across the nation, thought to be more infectious than the original. Since the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine was green-lit for the ‘world’s first’ roll out […]
