Pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca announced on Wednesday that it will partner with Germany's IDT Biologika to produce more Covid-19 vaccine doses for use in Europe. 

Four people were arrested in Jerusalem after clashes between Israeli security forces and ultra-orthodox Jews opposed to coronavirus restrictions, the police said Wednesday.

German Covid-19 vaccine maker BioNTech said Wednesday it has started production at its new facility in Marburg, expected to significantly boost the EU's vaccine supply.

The World Health Organization expert mission to China ended this week without finding the source of the coronavirus that has killed over 2.3 million worldwide.

Iran began its vaccination campaign against Covid-19 on Tuesday to fight the Middle East's deadliest outbreak of the illness, images broadcast by state television showed.

The WHO mission to China to uncover the origins of the coronavirus has failed to identify the source of the pandemic but the team on Tuesday ruled out the Wuhan lab-leak theory propagated by Donald Trump. 

An international team of experts who have been in China for the past month to help investigate Covid's origins will speak with the media in Wuhan on Tuesday, the WHO said.

On Thursday February 4, Dr. Jackie Maalouf, the Founder and President of DiaLeb, a Lebanese NGO that promotes diabetes care and prevention, was one of 8 international speakers at the virtual Launch of the Diabetes Epidemiology Guide organized by the International Diabetes Federation.

“Dr. Maalouf spoke about the challenges of data processes in Lebanon and the MENA region. She then shared some interesting facts related to diabetes epidemiology. She also highlighted the benefits of this new guide especially for countries with no updated data of patient registry,” a DiaLeb statement said.

South Africa suspended the start of its AstraZeneca inoculation programme over concerns the shot does not work on a new variant, with WHO experts due to meet Monday to discuss the vaccine already facing questions about its efficacy for over-65s.

Hundreds of thousands of students in Jordan went back to classrooms on Sunday after almost a year of school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.