Doha, 21 Dec. 2020 A number of countries have decided to close their borders and suspend commercial flights to check the spread of a new coronavirus strain first discovered in the United Kingdom. The identification of the highly infectious strain has caused chaos across the world, with many European and other countries shutting off travel...

Doha, 15 Dec. 2020 (Qatar Tribune) By Ashraf Siddiqui The COVID-19 vaccine will be available for everyone in Qatar free of charge but will be optional and not mandatory for the general public, the Ministry of Public Health’s (MoPH) Mona Al Muslamani has said. She said Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will be carrying out awareness...

Doha SOSO Care and Ellen Medical Devices were awarded 2020 WISH cash award in Spark competition and WISH Innovation Booster Competition to  for its affordable dialysis machine, respectively. The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) announced the grand prize winners of its two latest Innovation Award competitions during the closing ceremony of WISH 2020 on...

Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports The first case of Covid-19 was reported in USA on 22nd January 2020, since then the country has reported 11,717, 953 cases, and 252,555 deaths as per Johns Hopkin report on Thursday 19 November 2020. BRAZI: The first case of COVID-19 in Brazil was reported 266 days ago on 2/26/2020. Since...

Doha, 18 Nov. 2020 The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) 2020 is wrapping up its biennial event on Thursday, November 19, with a series of meetings and panel discussions,before announcing the Grand Prize winners of this year's innovation awards. The fifth edition of the summit, which was held virtually this year, celebrated the spirit...

Doha, 18 Nov. 2020 Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, and also a world-renowned HIV/AIDS researcher, spoke at virtual WISH 2020 in a special interview with The BMJ’s Editor in Chief, Fiona Godlee. He said that...

Doha, 04 Nov 2020 This year’s Doha Healthcare Week (DHW), developed by the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), is taking place from Nov. 08-14,will draw attention towads  the need for greater public awareness of health challenges. In this regard, a series of webinar and professional development activities are planned, without any fees for registration....

Washington (USA), 14 Oct. 2020 (The Wall Street Journal) Barron Trump, President Trump and first lady Melania Trump’s 14-year-old son, tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month and has since recovered, the first lady said Wednesday. In a rare personal essay posted on the White House website Wednesday titled “My personal experience with Covid-19,” Mrs....

Doha, 21 Sept. 2020 The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), Qatar Foundation’s global health initiative, has announced a strategic partnership with BMJ, one of the world's most prestigious and most cited general medical journals. Under the new partnership, WISH have worked with BMJ on three reports that will include peer-reviewed academic papers written by...

19 Sept. 2020 (WHO) There have been 30,369,778 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 188 countries, and 948,795 deaths, reported by World Health Organization on 19th Sept. 2020. Around 20.3m are recovered worldwide As of 19 September 2020, following are region wise  confirmed positive coronavirus patients :   Region                                       Positive               Deaths Americas                ...