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Turkey

Pedestrians wearing face masks walk in Ankara amid the Covid-19 pandemic. AFP

Turkey registers record COVID-19 toll

Algeria

A 2019 file picture of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune holding a press conference in Algiers. (AP)

Silence about Tebboune’s health worries Algerians

Palestine

Palestinian children have their temperature checked at a kindergarten in Gaza city while wearing face shields due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on November 23, 2020. (AFP)

Gaza struggles to cope with sharp rise in COVID-19 infections

COVID-19

Vaccine news boosts investors’ hopes but questions remain

Morocco

Moroccan police officers wearing masks direct the traffic at a checkpoint in Casablanca, Morocco. AP

Morocco announces vaccination drive against coronavirus

Death

Saeb Erekat, longtime Palestinian peace negotiator, dies of COVID-19

tunisia

Packages set for delivery are seen at the Jumia warehouse in Lagos, Nigeria. Jumia is one of the main online entreprises operating in Tunisia. (REUTERS)

E-commerce has grown in Tunisia since pandemic but hurdles remain

Syria

A merchant writes ‘Made in Aleppo’ on a stand in a trade fair dedicated to war-hit businesses from Aleppo looking to make a revival, in the Syrian capital Damascus’s Tekkiyeh Sulimaniyeh complex, on November 2. (AFP)

Aleppo artisans seeking to renew hope at Damascus fair

tunisia

Nurses clad in PPE (personal protective equipment) tend to a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit (ICU) at a hospital in the town of Gabes in Tunisia’s south-west.(AFP)

Tunisia running short of ICU beds with pandemic spike