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DP World and UNICEF have announced a wide-ranging partnership to support the global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and related immunisation supplies in low- and lower-middle-income countries. The new multi-million-dollar partnership is the largest established to date to support UNICEF’s leading role in procuring and supplying two billion doses of COVID-19 …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention has announced that 86,770 doses of the #Covid19 vaccine were given in the past 24 hours. The total number of doses provided up to today stands at 2,764,445 with a rate of vaccine distribution of 27.95 doses per 100 people. This is in line …

The Supreme Committee of Crisis and Disaster Management in Dubai, headed by His Highness Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, today announced updates to Dubai’s travel protocols for inbound passengers, effective from Sunday, 31 January. The updates are part of the Committee’s keenness to protect passengers and ease …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, announced on Wednesday that it conducted 174,016 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the Ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus …

His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has announced renewed financial support of $10 million to the Carter Centre, following the 30th anniversary of the organisation ’s partnership with the UAE. The collaboration will continue …

YouTube’s short video product Shorts, which is currently being beta-tested in India, has received 3.5 billion daily views, the company’s top executive wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Shorts is a new short-form video experience on YouTube for creators and artists who want to shoot short videos using their …

Mohammed bin Rashid:• Today, the UAE government has concluded the World Coolest Winter campaign to encourage domestic tourism. 950 thousand domestic tourists with an outcome of about one billion dirhams within one month. 2000 media coverage and 215 million views of videos depicting the UAE in a new, unique, and …

Bahrain will suspend dine-in services in restaurants and cafes and will move public and private schools to remote learning for three weeks to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the health ministry said on Wednesday.

The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has announced the commencement of operational procedures aimed at assuming the supervisory and regulatory responsibility of the insurance sector pursuant to Decretal Federal Law No. (25) of 2020 whereby the merger of the Insurance Authority into the Central Bank was decided. H.H. Sheikh …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has officially opened Al-Qassimi Hospital’s Regenerative Medicine Centre. The newly launched centre is equipped with state-of-the-art medical gadgets and devices, as well as qualified medical, technical, and nursing teams. The centre offering plasma and hyperbaric oxygen therapy includes a unit equipped with smart …