Health

The United Arab Emirates today sent an aid plane carrying 8 metric tons of medical supplies and testing kits to Burkina Faso. This aid will assist approximately 8,000 medical professionals as they work to contain the virus, bolstering the country’s efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. “Based on the …

Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Hamed, Chairman of the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi, DoH, and Dr. Jamal Alkaabi, Acting Under-Secretary of DoH, joined volunteers of clinical trials currently taking place in Abu Dhabi for possible vaccines to cure COVID19. The trials are taking place at various public healthcare …

More than 13.59 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 583,005​ have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

Abu Dhabi Government Media Office: The world’s first WHO-listed phase III clinical trial of the Covid-19 inactivated vaccine has begun in Abu Dhabi, with Department of Health- Abu Dhabi Chairman, Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Hamed the 1st to participate in the trial, followed by Acting Undersecretary Dr. Jamal Al …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention has conducted more than 48,000 COVID-19 tests in different regions of the country and reports: • 275 new cases of coronavirus from different nationalities, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 55,848. • The full recovery of 393 patients from the symptoms the …

 In 2019, the UAE was ranked first in seven global health indexes, according to the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority, FCSA. A report by the authority pointed out that the UAE was ranked first internationally in the “Low HIV Prevalence Index,” the “National Early Detection Programmes Index,” the “Low Rate …

Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Hamed, Chairman of the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), and Dr. Jamal Mohammad Al Kaabi, Acting Undersecretary of DoH, met with a delegation from the Sinopharm China National Biotec Group (CNBG) and Group 42 (G42) to discuss future plans as part of the first …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention has conducted more than 52,000 COVID-19 tests in different regions of the country and reports: • 375 new cases of coronavirus from different nationalities, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 55,573. • The full recovery of 512 patients from the symptoms the …

His Excellency Abdul Rahman Al Owais, Minister of Health and Prevention: • The UAE continues to expand the scope of tests and case tracing, where more than 4 million tests have been performed nationwide. • The third phase of a possible “COVID-19” vaccine have obtained approval from the scientific research …

At the regular government press briefing, held today, Dr. Abdul Rahman bin Mohammad bin Nasser Al Owais, Minister of Health and Prevention, announced that a third stage study of a possible vaccine against Covid-19 has been approved by the Ethics Committee Scientific research in Abu Dhabi. This approval paves the …