Asia-West / Mid-East / North-Africa

The prices of products have increased ten folds since the beginning of the crisis in Syria nine years ago. In recent months, the situation even got harder.

In a race to find a cure for COVID-19, scientists at Israel top have managed to isolate a key coronavirus antibody which could possibly neutralise the virus.

Pharma industry faces a perfect storm of cheap ruble, production backlogs, supply chain disruptions and high transport costs.

A number of Russian vendors have begun to raise drug prices by up to 15% because of the ruble’s devaluation during the coronavirus pandemic.

Products sent are ‘unrelated to coronavirus’.

Every country needs to keep preparing for large-scale community transmission, says regional director.

Private hospitals, which employ some 300,000 people and have 40 percent of Turkey’s ICU beds, are running out of resources and will not be able to keep up.

Iran is to allocate 20% of its annual state budget to fighting the coronavirus outbreak in the country, one of the worst-hit in the world

Trump tariffs of up to 25 percent have been imposed on a range of Chinese medically related products.

Israel approved the licensing of a generic version of an HIV drug to treat patients infected with the coronavirus on Thursday, despite doubts about its effectiveness in trials.

So far, a draft bill has been submitted for consideration by the State Duma.

More than 237 people have died of coronavirus in Iran, and critics say the government was slow to respond to the outbreak because it failed to take it seriously.

Iran's health ministry on Sunday reported 49 new deaths from the COVID-19 disease, the highest toll within 24 hours since the start of the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country.

China, the place where it first appeared, says it has the answers.

A health ministry official said the people testing positive for the virus had risen to 5,823.