NEW YORK (AP) — US health officials say 2021 is shaping up to be even deadlier than last year. Anderson said it’s likely that the nation will see more than 3.4 million deaths in 2021. A large reason is COVID-19, which hit the US hard around March 2020 and became the nation’s No. Officials had hoped COVID-19 vaccines would slash the death count. Indeed, that’s a big part of why COVID-19 deaths could climb despite the availability of effective vaccines, Mokdad said.

The Central Bank of Egypt on Monday issued treasury bonds worth LE14.5 billion, in coordination with Finance Ministry, to finance the budget deficit. The government borrows through treasury bonds and bills over different periods of time, and government banks are the largest purchasers of it. Treasury bonds are long-term debt instruments, with maturities ranging from more than one year to 15 years. The returns of the Central Bank of Egypt, from loans and balances with banks, in addition to the proceeds of treasury bills and bonds rose to LE 145.387 billion during the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2019, compared to LE 118,875 billion on June 30, 2018 – an increase of LE 26.512 billion. The return on treasury bills and bonds increased to LE 126.6 billion compared to LE 107.2 billion, an increase of LE19.4 billion during the same period.

DUBAI, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said on Tuesday it had signed a cooperation deal with Dubai World Trade Centre Authority, which is working to set up an international virtual asset ecosystem. The Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) said on Monday that it will become a crypto zone and regulator for cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets, as the United Arab Emirates seeks to attract new business amid regional competition. read moreBinance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volumes, said in a statement that it intends to assist the development of virtual asset regulations in Dubai. read moreDubai World Trade Centre Authority (DWTCA), a so-called free zone within the UAE, agreed a framework in September allowing it to approve and licence crypto-related financial activities. And in October, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), another Dubai free zone, released the first part of a regulatory framework for digital tokens.

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CAIRO – 21 December 2021: Chairman of AstraZeneca Egypt Hatem al-Werdany stated in a phone-in with TV host Amr Adib that Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population is running tests on the anti-COVID-19 drug devised by the company to treat the omicron variant before it is offered in the Egyptian market. Werdany pointed out that AstraZeneca prepares to supply 2.5 billion doses – worldwide - of the new drug, which has the form of an injection whose effect lasts between six months and a year. In a similar context, the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) announced in November the start of clinical trials for the first Egyptian-made coronavirus vaccine Covi Vacc. Egypt has received doses from the vaccines of Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Sinovac, Sinopharm, Sputnik V. This is in addition to the raw material for the production of Sinovac/VACSERA vaccine doses. Egypt has vaccinated almost 40 million people against coronavirus since the start of its vaccination campaign, Health Ministry Spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar told media earlier.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Tuesday fired cruise missiles during a major military exercise across the country’s south, media reported. But it said five cruise missiles and an unspecified number of attack drones successfully hit their targets. The Guard in the past has said it has cruise missiles with ranges of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles). Last month, Iran’s military began its annual war games in a coastal area of the Gulf of Oman. Israel has repeatedly threatened unilateral action against Iran’s nuclear program.

Social media users shared photos and videos of snow across Alexandria as Egypt endures a cold snap, with some commenting: “Is this Alexandria or Europe?”The Meteorological Authority uploaded photos on Facebook pictures of snow from the streets of Alexandria, specifically from the Karmouz, Al-Manshiya, and Alexandria port areas. https://fb.watch/a0d7GL6X5g/The Director of the Analysis and Forecasting Center at the Egyptian Meteorological Authority Mahmoud Shaheen warned citizens against weather instability during the coming hours. He implored citizens wear winter clothes and drive carefully during the coming hours, because the minimum temperature will reach from eight to 10 degrees Celsius, except for St. Catherine which will reach two degrees below zero. During the coming night hours, he added that rains will extend to the governorates of Lower Egypt, Greater Cairo, North Upper Egypt, the cities of the Suez Canal, and Sinai across Sunday and Monday.

A higher, 100 microgram booster dose of the same vaccine drove antibody levels even higher – more than 80 times pre-boost levels. read moreBurton said it would be up to governments and regulators to gauge whether they want the enhanced level of protection that a 100 microgram dose might confer. The company said that the 100 microgram dose was generally safe and well tolerated, although there was a trend toward slightly more frequent adverse reactions. U.S. regulators authorized the 50 microgram booster of Moderna’s vaccine in October. Several studies have suggested that Moderna’s vaccine is likely to cause the heart inflammation at a higher rate.

HONG KONG (AP) — Pro-Beijing candidates dominated Hong Kong’s legislative elections, beating out moderates and independents in the city’s first public poll after Beijing passed a resolution to amend the city’s election laws. Candidates loyal to Beijing won a majority of the seats in Sunday’s election after the laws were changed to ensure that only pro-Beijing “patriots” could run the city. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said during a news conference Monday she was “satisfied” with the election despite a 30.2% voter turnout — the lowest since the British handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997. Lam is expected to travel to Beijing later Monday on a duty-reporting trip, which she says is to give a full account to Beijing on the latest political and economic situation in Hong Kong. “I expect to cover a wide range of issues on this particular duty visit because through two very decisive acts of the central authorities, Hong Kong is now back on the right track of ‘one country, two systems,’” she said.

(AP) — The COVID-19 omicron variant is “just raging around the world,” the White House’s top medical adviser said Sunday as President Joe Biden prepares to issue “a stark warning of what the winter will look like” for unvaccinated Americans. It is just, you know, raging through the world, really,” Fauci said. I think most scientists did not — upon whose advice and direction we have relied — didn’t see delta coming.” She added: “We didn’t see omicron coming. Fauci told NBC he saw the variants coming and he thought Harris’ statement “was taken a bit out of context,” adding he believed she was referring to “the extraordinary number of mutations … particularly with omicron. No one had expected it that much but we were well-prepared and expected that we were going to see variants.”

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The fate of the 2022 African Cup of Nations scheduled in Cameroon on January remains unclear, owing to a lack of agreement on when the tournament should be held and coronavirus complications. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced holding the African Cup of Nations from January 9 to February 6, amid a refusal from the European clubs to send their players in light of the fears about the omicron variant spreading across African nations. According to sources, Infantino is expected to present two solutions to the executive office of the CAF in order to save the tournament. The first is to postpone it, and the second solution is to hold the tournament without professional players in Europe. This idea came to the first official in FIFA after the great success that took place in FIFA Arab Cup 2021, despite being held without professional players from European clubs.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry expressed its rejection of a German government statement commenting on an upcoming trial session of lawyer Mohamed al-Baqer and other defendants before the Egyptian judiciary. With this we see double standards.”The Foreign Ministry statement stressed that it “reaffirms once again its complete rejection of interference in internal affairs, the necessity of respecting the rule of law and the constitution of the Egyptian state, and that assuming a specific outcome is totally rejected because this represents a waste of the judiciary and justice, the principles of the rule of law, and the provisions of the Constitution”. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry concluded its statement by saying, “It is better for the German government to pay attention to its internal challenges, rather than imposing its guardianship on others.”The German Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday, that “the upcoming pronouncement of a judgment on 20 December 2021 in the trial of the lawyer Mohamed al-Baqer will show where the human rights situation in Egypt is heading. ”It added that “the German Government expects the Egyptian Government to work to ensure that Mr El-Baqer receives a fair trial and is released, along with his co-defendants Alaa Abdel Fattah and Mohamed Ibrahim. Lawyers must not be punished for practicing their profession.”“We welcome the most recent steps by the Egyptian Government to improve the human rights situation, including by introducing Egypt’s first national strategy for human rights in September 2021, and we will follow its implementation with great interest,” the statement said.

The Chairman of the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) Abdel Moneim al-Tarras received on Sunday Minister of Electricity in Yemen Anwar Kalashat, and the accompanying delegation, to discuss Egypt’s contribution to helping rebuilding Yemen. The meeting covered the experience Egyptian institutions, led by the AOI – the industrial backer of the Egyptian state – hold to participate in plans for the reconstruction and development of Yemen. During his visit to the AOI production display, Kalashat stressed his country’s keenness to strengthen partnership and cooperation relations with Egypt, a leading country in the Arab world. He pointed out the Yemen is keen to develop bilateral relations, welcome Egyptian investors in all fields to utilize untapped Yemeni energies and wealth. Kalashat discussed long-term joint partnerships with the AOI, in all fields of industry, training, digital transformation, information transfer and participation in development projects in Yemen in accordance with international quality standards.

CAIRO- 19 December 2021: The first three cases infected with Omicron variant and isolated in Egyptian isolation hospitals are completely stable, said Egyptian Acting Health MinisterKhaled Abdel Ghaffar on Sunday. He added during the inauguration of the national campaign for polio vaccination that two cases have no disease symptoms, while the third case suffers from minor symptoms. “No worries about Omicron, he said, adding that Isolation and health hospitals are fully prepared for any changes that may occur due to Omicron. More than 550,000 citizens are being vaccinated daily with various doses of the Coronavirus vaccine, the Acting Minister said. The four-day national polio vaccination campaign was launched on Sunday nationwide.