Dubai to begin inoculations with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from today

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Dubai will start inoculating people with the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech for free from Wednesday, the emirate’s government said, joining Saudi Arabia which last week became the first Arab country to begin using this vaccine. The move comes after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain earlier this month rolled out a vaccine developed by China National Pharmaceutical Group, Sinopharm, to the general public. The UAE was the first country to roll out the Chinese vaccines for its population, saying earlier this month it has 86…

Israel urges citizens to avoid Gulf, cites Iran threat

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ The Israeli government on Thursday urged its citizens to avoid travel to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, citing threats of Iranian attacks. Iran has been threatening to attack Israeli targets since its chief nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated last Friday near Tehran. It accuses Israel, which has been suspected in previous killings of Iranian nuclear scientists, of being behind the shooting. Israel has not commented on the killing. But Fakhrizadeh has long been on Israel’s radar screen, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying at a 2018…

Israel Removes Saudi Arabia From Quarantine List A Day After Netanyahu’s ‘Visit’

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reported visit to Saudi Arabia, the Israeli Ministry of Health added Saudi Arabia to its “green” list of coronavirus. The list includes countries from which returnees do not have to stay in quarantine. According to the foreign news agency ‘AFP’, the Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed that Saudi Arabia was included in the list of safe countries a day ago, but denied any connection to Netanyahu’s reported visit to the futuristic Red Sea city of Neom on Sunday. For news updates…