The World Health Organisation has reported that 101 health workers were among the over 4,333 people who had so far been confirmed dead.
Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year to inoculate tens of millions of children.
With the new Covid-19 variant Pirola spreading to at least eight countries, The New Arab looks at whether the variant has yet reached the Middle East and North Africa.
Low immunisation rates and rising malnutrition – both exacerbated by the nine years of shattering war in the country – are playing a major role in the apparent rise in measles cases, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have said.
The WHO on Monday flagged a batch of contaminated common cold syrup in Iraq manufactured by an Indian company.
Cancer patients suffering in northwestern Syria will once again be permitted entry into neighbouring Turkey to receive treatment following a months-long ban.
Algeria has denied reports there were cases of Ebola and Marburg in the North African country.
While Sudan is in desperate need of more doctors, it currently has nowhere to train them.
Conjoined Syrian twins underwent a seven-hour long surgery to be separated by a medical team in the Saudi capital on Thursday.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 'we cannot simply carry on as we did before' as he opened the UN agency's annual assembly in Geneva.