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Doctors and nursing staff test a four way multiplexer machine, which splits oxygen supply from a single ventilator to four patients through inspiratory limbs simultaneously, during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, at the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC) in Ahmedabad on April 20, 2020. (Photo by SAM PANTHAKY / AFP)
Experts warn of oxygen shortages in poorer nations
AHMEDABAD, India: Doctors and nursing staff test a four-way multiplexer machine, which splits oxygen supply from a single ventilator to four patients through inspiratory limbs simultaneously, at the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre on April 20, 2020. - AFP PARIS: As the coronavirus pandemic bears down on vulnerable nations in Africa and South Asia, experts say there are only weeks to help fill chronic shortages of what medics...
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Call to halt loans, recruitment from states refusing returnees
By B IzzakKUWAIT: MP Abdulkarim Al-Kandari yesterday called on the government to order Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic and Social Development to stop giving loans to countries that have refused to take back their workers who have been living illegally in the country. Kandari, who heads the National Assembly's foreign relations panel, said the government should adopt a tougher policy by also threatening to stop recruiting workers from these...
People take their need on April 21, 2020, in the Sariyer district of Istanbul, at the entrance of the Dedeman mosque where the racks reserved for shoes of the Muslim faithful is instead loaded with food which reminds one of a supermarket but they are destined for the needy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, after Turkey suspended mass prayers in mosques until the risk of COVID-19 outbreak passes. (Photo by Bulent Kilic / AFP)
Turkish mosque turned into temporary 'supermarket'
ISTANBUL: People take their need of food on Tuesday from Dedeman Mosque in the Sariyer district after Turkey suspended mass prayers in mosques until the risk of the COVID-19 outbreak passes. - AFP (See Page 16) ISTANBUL: At the entrance of an Istanbul mosque, the racks usually reserved for the shoes of the faithful are loaded with pasta packages, oil bottles, biscuits - like a supermarket. But they aren't for sale. Instead they are destined for...
(FILES) In this file photo taken during a guided tour organised by the Egyptian State Information Service on November 20, 2019, inmates receiving medical treatment at the clinic of Borg el-Arab prison near the Egyptian city of Alexandria. - As governments in the Middle East isolate their populations to prevent the spread of coronavirus, attention is turning the region's jails where detainees face a more punishing form of lockdown. Some Middle Eastern governments have released prisoners as part of their response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, while others have ignored pressure to do so. (Photo by Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP)
Virus fear haunts Egypt cramped jails
BORG EL ARAB: In this file photo taken during a guided tour organized by the Egyptian State Information Service, inmates receive medical treatment at the clinic of Borg El-Arab prison near the Egyptian city of Alexandria. - AFP CAIRO: Last April, medical student Mohamed Amashah stood on Cairo's Tahrir Square and held up a sign saying "Freedom for prisoners". He was detained. Now awaiting trial for more than a year on charges of misusing social...
TOPSHOT - Nurses protest against the lack of personal protection equipment amid the covid-19 pandemic in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 21, 2020. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)
Returning to COVID-19 frontlines, healed caregivers remain uneasy
WASHINGTON: Nurses protest against the lack of personal protection equipment amid the covid-19 pandemic in front of the White House in Washington, DC. - AFP WASHINGTON: After spending three weeks in isolation, Justin Jara returns to work Tuesday at his hospital in Detroit, but he doesn't have a lot of faith in the test that showed he now has antibodies against the new coronavirus. "I still have fear, I am scared to go back to work," the...
A migrant worker speaks on his mobile phone laying in front of a closed shop in a market area during a government-imposed lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in New Delhi on April 21, 2020. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP)
India's migrant workers fall through cracks in lockdown
NEW DELHI: A migrant worker speaks on his mobile phone laying in front of a closed shop in a market area during a government-imposed lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. _ AFP JUGYAI: Most days, you can find Dayaram Kushwaha and his wife, Gyanvati, hauling bricks for stonemasons in a booming northern suburb of New Delhi. They bring their 5-year-old son, who plays in the dirt while they work. But now a...
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - APRIL 20: A detail of a protester encouraging people to demand that businesses be allowed to open up, and people allowed to go back to work, at the Country Club Plaza on April 20, 2020 in Kansas City, Missouri. The protest was part of a growing national movement against stay-at-home orders designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Jamie Squire/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
US state sues China leaders over virus
MISSOURI: A detail of a protester encouraging people to demand that businesses be allowed to open up, and people allowed to go back to work. The protest was part of a growing national movement against stay-at-home orders designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus. - AFP MISSOURI: The US state of Missouri on Tuesday sued China's leadership over the COVID-19 coronavirus, seeking damages over what it described as deliberate deception and...
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Iran says military satellite launched amid US tensions
TEHRAN: Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced they had successfully launched the country's first military satellite yesterday, at a time of fresh tensions with US forces in the Gulf. The United States alleges Iran's satellite program is a cover for its development of missiles, while the Islamic republic has previously insisted its aerospace activities comply with its international obligations. Tensions between the arch foes escalated last week...
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 21: Medical workers hold signs outside NYU Langone Health hospital as people applaud to show their appreciation to medical staff and essential workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic on April 21, 2020 in New York City. COVID-19 statistics continue to trend downward in the tri-state region, but New York City has surpassed 132,000 cases since the outbreak. Jeenah Moon/Getty Images/AFPn== FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
Coronavirus takes mental toll on New York medical staff
NEW YORK: Medical workers hold signs outside NYU Langone Health hospital as people applaud to show their appreciation to medical staff and essential workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in New York City. - AFP NEW YORK: Battling to keep intensive care patients alive at a hospital in one of New York City's worst-affected coronavirus neighborhoods is taking a toll on nurse Debbie Sanchez's mental health. "I have extreme anxiety,"...
Employees load the body of a COVID-19 victim into the furnace at the New Sonapur Hindu crematorium in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai on April 19, 2020. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP)
No last goodbye for Gulf workers lost to pandemic
DUBAI: Employees load the body of a COVID-19 victim into the furnace at the New Sonapur Hindu crematorium on April 19, 2020. - AFP DUBAI: The body of the Indian migrant who died from coronavirus far from home was kept inside the ambulance in front of the crematorium in case a friend came by for a last goodbye. But nearly an hour later no one had appeared, and the workers in protective suits had to carry out their grim task. In silence, the four...
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Kuwait Amir congratulates citizens, residents on near advent of Ramadan
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah expressed yesterday his sincere greetings to citizens and expatriates on the near advent of the holy month of Ramadan, said the Amiri Diwan in a statement. The Amiri diwan added that His Highness the Amir would not be able to receive Ramadan well-wishers this year in line with the health guidelines set to counter...
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Speakers partakes in IPU meetings via video conference
KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem participates, through a video conference, in the third preparatory committee meeting for the fifth conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. - KUNA KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem participated, through a video conference on Tuesday, in the third preparatory committee meeting, for the fifth conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), scheduled to be held next...
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Overstayers, sponsors to be deported
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation
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MAJDAL SHAMS: Druze elders and mourners surround the coffins of 10 of the 12 people killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, during a mass funeral in this Druze town in the Zionist-annexed Golan Heights on July 28, 2024. - AFP
Mideast seethes amid carnage
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KUWAIT: Photo provided by the Al-Zour oil Refinery shows a view of the facility, in Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. – AFP
The impact of oil discoveries