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78 new coronavirus cases as Jleeb, Mahboula cordoned off
By B Izzak and AgenciesKUWAIT: The ministry of health reported 78 new coronavirus cases yesterday, raising the total number to 743 cases and one death. Of the new cases, 77 are expats, 59 of whom are Indians and the rest belonging to several nationalities. Of the 637 cases receiving treatment, 23 are in intensive care, six in critical condition. The ministry said two cases had recovered, one a 72-year-old Kuwaiti man and the other a...
(COMBO) This combination of 12 pictures created on April 6, 2020 shows medical staffers on the frontline treating patients of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) pandemic: (top L-R) Sait Gonen, 59, Professor and Dean of the Istanbul University Cerrahpasa medical faculty; Fatma Dinc, 33, a nurse; Professor Yalim Dikmen, 56, a doctor as intensive care specialist; Nurgul Tayran, 47, a registered infection control nurse; (middle L-R) Ozlem Hatip, 40, a nurse; Mehmet Sakirsahsi, 47, a member of cleaning staff; Semra Kacar, 44, a nurse; associate professor Kenan Barut, 42, a doctor at the pediatric clinic; (bottom L-R) Gokberk Guler, 28, a doctor; Nilay Simsek, 43, a chief nurse; Cebrail Karaca, 33, a doctor in the nephrology department; Hatice Degirmenci, 24, a member of cleaning staff, posing during a photo session at the Istanbul University Cerrahpasa medical faculty Hospital in Istanbul. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP)
World 'short of' 6 million nurses
ISTANBUL: This combination of 12 pictures shows medical staffers on the frontline treating patients of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) pandemic. - AFP GENEVA: As COVID-19 captures global headlines, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned yesterday that the world needs nearly six million nurses. The UN's health agency along with partners Nursing Now and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) underscored in a report the crucial role played...
TOPSHOT - Iranian women, members of paramilitary organisation Basij, make face masks and other protective items at a mosque in the capital Tehran, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis on April 5, 2020. - The spread of the virus in Iran has slowed for the fifth day in a row, according to official figures released today by the authorities, who also announced plans for a gradual resumption of certain economic activities starting on April 11. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
Mosque converted into mask factory in coronavirus-hit Iran
TEHRAN: Iranian women, members of paramilitary organization Basij, make facemasks and other protective items at a mosque in the capital on April 5, 2020. - FP TEHRAN: At a Tehran mosque converted into a factory, women volunteers who would normally attend to visitors to the old battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war have joined the fight against coronavirus. Lined up like factory workers, around 15 women have taken up positions in front of table-top...
Bodies are moved to a refrigerator truck serving as a temporary morgue outside of Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn on April 4, 2020 in New York. - New York state's coronavirus toll rose at a devastating pace to 3,565 deaths Saturday, the governor said, up from 2,935 the previous day, the largest 24-hour jump recorded there. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP)
New York struggles with the dead
NEW YORK: Bodies are moved to a refrigerator truck serving as a temporary morgue outside of Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York.- AFP NEW YORK: Refrigerator trucks parked outside hospital doors, overwhelmed undertakers, and talk about temporary burials in parks: America's coronavirus epicenter of New York is grappling with how to deal with the dead. As the Big Apple's death toll from COVID-19 soared to 3,485 Monday, images of...
Australian Cardinal George Pell leaves after being released from Barwon Prison near Anakie, some 70 kilometres west of Melbourne, on April 7, 2020. - Cardinal George Pell's historic child sex abuse convictions were quashed by Australia's High Court on April 7, paving the way for the senior Catholic cleric's release from prison. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)
Cardinal freed after winning appeal over 'child sex abuse'
ANAKIE: Australian Cardinal George Pell leaves after being released from Barwon Prison near Anakie, some 70 kilometers west of Melbourne yesterday. - AFP BRISBANE: Cardinal George Pell was released from prison yesterday, hours after Australia's High Court quashed his conviction for child sex abuse, bringing to an abrupt end the most high-profile paedophilia case faced by the Catholic Church. The 78-year-old left Barwon Prison near Melbourne...
Medical personnel wearing protective gear outside the Gare d'Austerlitz rail station in Paris, on April 5, 2020, during an evacuation operation of patients infected with COVID-19 onboard a TGV high speed train, on the on the 20th day of a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus). - France has been evacuating COVID-19 patients from packed hospitals in hard-hit regions to hospitals is less affected regions of the country by transporting them in medically equipped TGV high speed trains. (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP)
Pain, solitude, fear: Stories of the COVID-19 survivors
PARIS: Medical personnel wearing protective gear outside the Gare d'Austerlitz rail station in Paris during an evacuation operation of patients infected with COVID-19 onboard a TGV high speed train. _ AFP PARIS: A sense of death stalking the hospital ward, fear of dying alone, tearful despair and disarray at home, solitude, anger and the desire to share, or change their life: 12 people from different parts of the world who have survived COVID-19...
A general view shows the central business district of Singapore on April 7, 2020, as the country ordered the closure of all businesses deemed non-essential as well as schools to combat the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. - Singapore's usually bustling business district was almost deserted on April 7 as most workplaces in the city-state closed to stem the spread of the coronavirus after a surge in cases. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP)
'Dead city': Singapore paralyzed
SINGAPORE: A general view shows the central business district of Singapore as the country ordered the closure of all businesses deemed non-essential as well as schools to combat the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. _ AFP SINGAPORE: Singapore's usually bustling business district was almost deserted Tuesday as most workplaces in the city-state closed to stem the spread of the coronavirus after a surge in cases. The financial hub has won...
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British PM fights virus in ICU as global toll soars
Boris Johnson LONDON: Britain's prime minister was battling the coronavirus in intensive care yesterday, the highest-profile case in the pandemic as the United States and Europe saw their death tolls reach new milestones. Boris Johnson's fight against the disease underscored the indiscriminate nature of COVID-19, which has restricted freedoms for some four billion people, wrecked the global economy and upended society.Johnson spent the night in...
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Kuwait govt to take legal action against sponsors abusing workers
KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the cabinet's meeting. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait government decided Monday to extend a holiday that was supposed to end this week until April 23 as part of the country's efforts to curb spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), while taking legal action against sponsors abusing workers. The government decided to extend the holiday until April 23 and work will...
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Kuwait employers have no right to fire employees due to coronavirus: Lawyer
Lawyer Mohammad Al-Jasem By Faten OmarKUWAIT: Many workers have lost their jobs since the country went on a coronavirus lockdown. As Kuwait imposed a partial curfew and closed its borders, airports and businesses and suspended schools, many people faced unfair actions. Kuwait Times spoke to Mohammad Al-Jasem, lawyer and Interpol-accredited expert in international law enforcement cooperation, to learn about the legal issues faced by workers.Many...
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Amir congratulates Sagr on KCCI election
Mohammad Al-Sagr KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah addressed a cable of congratulations to Mohammad Jassem Al-Sagr, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), on his election uncontested as the chamber's head. His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak sent identical messages to Sagr.KCCI's...
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Kuwaiti Municipality imposes further measures to curb coronavirus spread
KUWAIT: Director General of Kuwait Municipality Ahmad Al-Manfouhi tours vehicle repair shops in Sharq. - Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh and KUNA KUWAIT: Director General of Kuwait Municipality Ahmad Al-Manfouhi took a decision Monday to decrease commercial activities allowed in the country as part of the measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Speaking to the press during inspections of vehicle repair shops in Shuwaikh and Sharq...
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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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MoH underlines importance of compact imaging device