Linah Alsaafin

COVID news from Jan­u­ary 16: New law re­quires peo­ple to have vac­ci­na­tion cer­tifi­cate to en­ter pub­lic places.

COVID news from Jan­u­ary 15: UN-backed vac­cine-shar­ing pro­gramme has de­liv­ered one bil­lion dos­es to 144 na­tions.

Blan­ket boost­er pro­grammes in rich coun­tries risk pro­long­ing the bat­tle with COVID-19, WHO chief says.

Sup­port for Pales­tine was on avid dis­play through­out the Arab Cup 2021, es­pe­cial­ly by Al­ge­ria’s team and fans.

WHO chief warns of re­in­fec­tion from COVID as US of­fi­cials say Omi­cron vari­ant now ac­counts for 73.2 per­cent of cas­es.

The first leg­isla­tive elec­tions will see na­tive Qatari cit­i­zens elect 30 can­di­dates of the 45-mem­ber Shu­ra Coun­cil.

Wide­spread re­luc­tance to get a shot led of­fi­cials and medics to launch cam­paign about pos­i­tive ef­fects of vac­ci­na­tion.

Is­rael bans more than 1,000 ‘dual-us­age’ con­struc­tion ma­te­ri­als leav­ing Pales­tini­ans to re­pur­pose rub­ble for re­build­ing.

The squad has car­ried out 1,200 mis­sions to neu­tralise, defuse and de­stroy un­ex­plod­ed war­heads in res­i­den­tial ar­eas.

Sheikh Jar­rah fam­i­lies re­ject­ed Avichai Mendel­bit’s stance, say­ing the case is not a le­gal is­sue but forced ex­pul­sion.