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'Rioters' to be deported, others leaving on their own after protesting over unpaid wages
By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: Six Egyptian security personnel who staged a "lightning" protest and triggered a riot in block 1 in Farwaniya on Wednesday were arrested and will be deported. Kuwait Times was able to talk to their colleagues heading to the amnesty processing site yesterday with their luggage. "We are all going home," said Ahmed, one of more than 500 Egyptians who had protested. Some were already at the amnesty processing site, while others...
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Virus crisis could remain until yearend amid 55 new cases
By B IzzakKUWAIT: The health ministry yesterday reported 55 new coronavirus cases, a big drop from the past few days, raising the total to 910 cases. Of the new cases, 37 are Indians, six Bangladeshis, six Kuwaitis and the rest from different nationalities. The ministry said of the 798 cases receiving treatment at hospitals, 22 of them are in intensive care units, eight in critical condition.Health Minister Sheikh Basel Al-Sabah yesterday said...
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Coronavirus death toll crosses 87,000
LONDON: A general view is seen of St Thomas' Hospital in central London yesterday where Britain's prime minister is in intensive care as he fights the novel coronavirus COVID-19. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday began a fourth day in intensive care "improving" in his battle with coronavirus, as his government prepared to extend a nationwide lockdown introduced last month. - AFP WASHINGTON: The coronavirus pandemic notched up...
A Lebanese bakery manager, wearing a protective face mask amid the COVID-19 outbreak, poses for a picture in the capital Beirut, on March 30, 2020. (Photo by PATRICK BAZ / AFP)
Lebanon import woes deepen as supply chains buckle under virus
BEIRUT: A Lebanese bakery manager, wearing a protective face mask amid the COVID-19 outbreak, poses for a picture in the capital Beirut, in this file photo.-AFP BEIRUT: Lebanon's food importers, already hit by a dollar crunch, have struggled to book new cargoes as the coronavirus pandemic threatens supplies and sparks fears of even more painful price hikes. Some vendors are delaying shipments and refusing new orders to Lebanon - which relies...
Security personnel walks inside a field hospital that had offered beds for coronavirus patients during the height of the crisis in Wuhan in Chinaís central Hubei province on April 9, 2020. - Thousands of relieved citizens streamed out of China's Wuhan on April 8 after authorities lifted months of lockdown at the coronavirus epicentre, offering some hope to the world despite record deaths in Europe and the United States. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP)
China seeks to contain 'silent carriers' of coronavirus
WUHAN: Security personnel walks inside a field hospital that had offered beds for coronavirus patients during the height of the crisis in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province yesterday. Thousands of relieved citizens streamed out of China's Wuhan after authorities lifted months of lockdown. - AFP BEIJING: China released new measures yesterday to try and prevent asymptomatic "silent carriers" of coronavirus from causing a second wave of...
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Polish healthcare workers celebrate Easter without families in Germany
BERLIN: Polish health-workers are faced with a heartbreaking dilemma when the Polish government announced on March 27 that anyone entering the country would be placed in mandatory 14-day quarantine. Return to safety and comfort in Poland, or staff the medical front line in Germany? BERLIN: For the first time in his life, Andrzej Zebrowski will not celebrate Easter with his family. Instead, the Polish surgeon will spend the holiday this year in...
Bombay Municipal Corporation workers stand outside an isolation centre being set up at the NSCI dome during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Mumbai on April 9, 2020. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP)
Indian court order for free coronavirus testing may hinder fight: Experts
MUMBAI: Bombay Municipal Corporation workers stand outside an isolation centre being set up at the NSCI dome during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Mumbai yesterday. - AFP NEW DELHI: A decision by the Supreme Court of India to make testing for coronavirus free places an unfair financial burden on medical firms and could see a reduction in testing, already among the world's...
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Australian police take 'black box' off cruise ship in coronavirus homicide probe
SYDNEY: Australian police said yesterday they have taken the "black box" of a cruise ship which disembarked hundreds of passengers infected with the coronavirus in Sydney, as part of a homicide investigation into the country's deadliest infection source. The investigation got underway as the Australian authorities said the rate of new coronavirus infections hit its lowest number in three weeks and began arranging more flights to bring home...
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 08: Medical staff outside NYC Health + Hospitals-Gotham Health of East New York at a COVID-19 screening area on April 8, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. New York State reported the largest daily death count to date with 779 deaths in a 24 hour period related to COVID-19. New York State now has more confirmed COVID-19 cases, over 149,000, than any other country in the world. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/AFP
Coronavirus was spreading in NYC in February, came via Europe: Scientist
NEW YORK: Medical staff outside NYC Health + Hospitals-Gotham Health of East New York at a COVID-19 screening area on Wednesday in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. - AFP WASHINGTON: The novel coronavirus began spreading in New York City in February, before widespread testing began, and the strain so far identified in local samples came from Europe, a scientist said Wednesday. Adriana Heguy, a geneticist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine...
A boy looks on from the window of a flat in a building in Kuwait City on April 2, 2020, during a government-imposed curfew as a measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP)
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A boy looks on from the window of a flat in a building during the curfew. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
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Fight against coronavirus in two hotspots in Kuwait to take weeks
KUWAIT: Minister of Health Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah said Wednesday that public health teams are making intensive pandemic investigation in the two recently identified hotspots of the novel coronavirus. "It will take weeks to stem the tide of the pandemic in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh in Farwaniyah governorate and Mahboula in Ahmadi governorate, which have been placed under total lockdown," the minister told reporters.Sheikh Basel made the comments after...
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PM commends important role of Audit Bureau
KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets State Audit Bureau President Faisal Al-Shaya. KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Wednesday commended "important and constructive" role of the State Audit Bureau in supporting government's efforts to curb spread of coronavirus. The prime minister made the remarks during a meeting with Audit Bureau President Faisal Al-Shaya at Seif...
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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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
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Overstayers, sponsors to be deported
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Hand of female holding sunscreen. Very sun light Sky background.Health concepts and skin care
‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns