UN ESCWA This report sheds the light on social protection interventions as part of wider fiscal support measures implemented by Governments in the Arab region to cushion the repercussions of the pandemic on private households. It focuses on intra- and cross-regional differences in social protection spending using information and figures of public announcements issued by…
Read MoreJournal of Hazardouz Materials Advances This article reports on a long-term quantification study in Bahrain to investigate the incidence of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal Article
Read MoreInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases This article reports on the findings of a retrospective epidemiological study of 1362 COVID-19 reinfection cases in Bahrain between April 2020 and July 2021. The authors analyzed differences in disease severity and reinfection characteristics among various vaccination statuses: fully vaccinated, interrupted vaccination, one-dose vaccination, postreinfection vaccination, and unvaccinated. Journal Article
Read MoreEconomic Research Forum This article explores the allocation and effectiveness of government support to firms in Egypt where the authors considered both financial support measures which were already being implemented pre-COVID, as well as tax- and loan-related exemptions and deferments. The main findings show that government support has helped mitigate the effects of COVID-19, with…
Read MoreJournal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology This article aims to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 cases among children with hemoglobinopathies and other inherited anemias living in El-Minya Governorate, Egypt, who are at high risk of exposure to infection. Journal Article
Read MoreKAUST This article reports on the work of KAUST bioscientists to place some of the genetic information of the SARS-CoV-2 variants circulating in Saudi Arabia on the global map. The scientists also identified a link between disease severity and the virus’s nucleocapsid protein. Article
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