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Chinese medical team lauds Kuwait's anti-COVID measures
KUWAIT: Members of the Chinese medical team meet with Kuwaiti officials. - KUNA KUWAIT: Head of a visiting Chinese medical team has praised Kuwait's response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, voicing his confidence in the Gulf State's defeat the virus. "We believe that Kuwait will achieve very good results in fighting against coronavirus," Ruan Yuesheng, head of a Chinese expert team visiting Kuwait to help address the pandemic, said...
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stc distributes vouchers to arriving travelers, hero front-liners
Danah Al-Jasem KUWAIT: Kuwait Telecommunications Company - stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced that stc distributed 5,000 vouchers at Ambulance Centers to front-liners and at Kuwait International Airport in a humane initiative to support and welcome back arriving citizens after being away from their home country for so long. These...
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Co-op branches sterilized
KUWAIT: Salmiya Co-op Society announced it will close all its branches today morning to have all its employees undergo preventive medical tests for coronavirus. The co-op will re-open in the evening. Salmiya residents of can shop at Al-Rumathiya co-op during the morning period. Meanwhile, Al-Sabahiya Co-op Society announced that its chairman of the board of directors tested positive for coronavirus. As a precautionary and preventive measure,...
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More reasons why Muslims love Ramadan
By Shariffa CarloIn previous articles, we explored some of the spiritual, emotional and even physical reasons why Muslims are thrilled by the prospect of spending their days depriving themselves of food, drink and other physical pleasures and their nights spent in prayer and camaraderie. In this section we will focus on the prayers and the Quran, which started it all.Ramadan and the night prayersMany of the people I questioned mentioned the...
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Pandemic Diaries: The deaths
By Jamie Etheridgeof Sunday morning, Kuwait has recorded 33 deaths from the coronavirus. The number is low, less than 1 percent of active cases. In some ways, this is great news for all of us here, because it means the government's efforts to provide care for those who get sick is working.At the same time, each of those 33 people who died left behind family and friends. They were grandmothers and grandfathers, husbands and wives, sisters and...
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Forgiveness: A way of life
By Abdellatif Sharaaafternoon, just before the curfew came into effect, a policeman stopped a motorist over a traffic violation. They then started to exchange words that no longer had anything to do with the violation, and almost turned into a heated confrontation if it was not for the wisdom of the policeman, who calmed down and asked the man to do so too, and apologized for any words that he did not like or were inappropriate.The driver...
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Coronavirus in Kuwait: What we know so far
KUWAIT: Kuwait has recorded 4,619 cases infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as of Saturday, in addition to 33 deaths. With the exception of 69 cases in intensive care, all infected cases are in stable condition and are recovering in quarantined locations designated by the government for this purpose, while hundreds have been discharged from quarantine after exhibiting no symptoms during their 14-day quarantine period, the Ministry of...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 26, 2020, industrial firms employees manufacture Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), like face shields, to supply New York's health care workers and hospitals at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. - The coronavirus pandemic caused manufacturing activity in the US to post a historic decline in April, according to an industry survey on May 1, 2020, and it may stay depressed for some time. The plunge in the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) manufacturing survey was not unexpected and actually slightly less severe than economists had anticipated, as the pandemic has also cut into economic growth and led to tens of millions of layoffs. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP)
US manufacturing activity plunges
NEW YORK: Industrial firms employees manufacture Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), like face shields, to supply New York's healthcare workers and hospitals at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The coronavirus pandemic caused manufacturing activity in the US to post a historic decline in April, according to an industry survey yesterday and it may stay depressed for some time. - AFP WASHINGTON: US manufacturing activity plunged to an 11-year low in April...
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on April 24, 2020 shows Cuban martial arts expert Alejandro Lopez, dancer Adrian Sanchez, Greco-Roman wrestler Daniel Gregorich and modern pentathlete Leydi Laura Moya training in their rooftops in Havana. - Amid the isolation due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, musicians, athletes, and dancers practice their routines on the roofs of their houses to stay fit. (Photos by YAMIL LAGE / AFP)
Athletes cling to their dreams on rooftops
HAVANA: This combination of pictures created on April 24, 2020 shows Cuban martial arts expert Alejandro Lopez, dancer Adrian Sanchez, Greco-Roman wrestler Daniel Gregorich and modern pentathlete Leydi Laura Moya training in their rooftops in Havana. - AFP HAVANA: These are hot, humid days in Havana. When the afternoon breeze sweeps in off the sea, William Roblejo steps onto the roof of his building, draws his bow across the strings of his...
An employee, wearing his personal protective equipment (PPE), looks through a microscope at the newly-inaugurated laboratory for coronavirus testing in Yemen's third city of Taiz, on April 30, 2020. - Yemen's healthcare system has been blighted by years of war that have driven millions from their homes and plunged the country into what the United Nations describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. (Photo by AHMAD AL-BASHA / AFP)
WHO says virus 'natural in origin'
TAEZ: An employee, wearing his personal protective equipment (PPE), looks through a microscope at the newly-inaugurated laboratory for coronavirus testing in Yemen's third city of Taiz. _ AFP GENEVA: The World Health Organization reiterated Friday that the new coronavirus was of natural origin after US President Donald Trump claimed he had seen evidence it originated in a Chinese lab. Scientists believe the killer virus jumped from animals to...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 10, 2019, employees of SpaceX work on the Crew Dragon reusable spacecraft after a press conference at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. - A SpaceX rocket will send astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets to the International Space Station on May 27, 2020, NASA announced on May 1, the first crewed spaceflight from the US in nearly a decade. (Photo by Philip Pacheco / AFP)
NASA, SpaceX target historic spaceflight
In this file photo, employees of SpaceX work on the Crew Dragon reusable spacecraft after a press conference at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. - AFP WASHINGTTON: NASA and SpaceX said Friday they were pressing ahead with plans to launch astronauts to space from US soil for the first time in nearly a decade later on this month, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, both veterans of the Space Shuttle...
TOPSHOT - A demonstrator holding an anti-Trump sign, pretends to drink from a bottle of bleach during a rally to re-open California and against Stay-At-Home directives on May 1, 2020 in San Diego, California. - Rallies have been held at several state capitols across the country as protesters express their deep frustration with the stay-at-home orders that are meant to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker / AFP)
Washington approves virus drug; states ease lockdowns
SAN DIEGO: A demonstrator holding an anti-Trump sign pretends to drink from a bottle of bleach during a rally to reopen California and against stay-at-home directives on Friday. - AFP WASHINGTON: American authorities have approved an experimental drug for emergency use on coronavirus patients, as more US states eased pandemic lockdowns despite another spike in deaths from the disease. The approval is the latest step in a global push to find...
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman endorses Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2034. - KUNA
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Group photo of Zain interns. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Zain interns sharpen media chops at Kuwait Times and Kuwait News