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Kuwait working to mitigate COVID-19 impact on oil market
Hashem Hashem KUWAIT: Deputy Board Chairman of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) Hashem Hashem said workers in oil sector exert praiseworthy efforts around the clock to ensure supplies to market despite challenges posed by novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. In a statement to the press on Friday, Hashem, also KPC's CEO, took pride in the dedication of the oil workers to "the march of giving" and the achievement of the targets of the oil...
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Kuwait vegetable market sells to co-ops only to prevent crowding
KUWAIT: This photo provided by the Ministry of Defense shows partitions inside Hall V in the Kuwait International Fairground in Mishref, which was turned into a quarantine zone. KUWAIT: Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) yesterday decided to allocate the Furdha vegetable market to provide and sell their products to cooperative societies and supermarkets only, in order to avoid gatherings. In a statement, the ministry said that according to...
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Kuwait proposes GCC food security net to secure supplies
KUWAIT: Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-Roudhan attends an extraordinary meeting via videoconference with his GCC counterparts. - KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait has proposed the creation of a regional food security net for the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members states to ensure adequate and accessible food supplies as well as to meet basic food shortages in crisis times. The Kuwaiti proposal was raised by Minister of Commerce and...
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Kuwait exports oil from joint fields after 5-year halt
KUWAIT: Kuwait announced Friday it will export its first crude shipment from oilfields in a shared neutral zone with Saudi Arabia that had been shut for five years due to a dispute. Oil Minister Khaled Al-Fadhel said that around one million barrels will be loaded yesterday and today onboard a giant Kuwaiti tanker 'Dar Salwa', "whose final destination will be the Asian markets", according to the official Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)."The export of...
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Health ministry withdraws 'Raniditine' products from market
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Health (MoH) said Thursday it was withdrawing all products containing Raniditine substance from the market, upon recommendations of the US Food and Drug Administration, because they contain large concentrations of residues of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA).The MoH's drug and herbal registration and supervision decided to withdraw the products for the sake of wellbeing of public, said Dr Abdullah Al-Bader, Assistant...
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Kuwait largest contributor to WHO's coronavirus programs
GENEVA: World Health Organization's Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday Kuwait was the largest contributor to WHO's coronavirus combat operations. Kuwait contributed $60 million to WHO's respond programs against coronavirus which claimed lives of over 50,000 and affected some a million others, Ghebreyesus told a press briefing.He said restrictions imposed by governments worldwide to prevent spread of coronavirus have...
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Pandemic Diaries: The eye of the storm
By Jamie Etheridgehas now been nearly two weeks since Kuwait imposed a partial curfew. When this all began in late February, I don't think most of us had any clue how bad or how far reaching it might get. Across the globe, we now have more than one million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and likely hundreds of thousands of more asymptomatic and unconfirmed cases.In the eye of the storm, it may seem calm and quiet - the silence of the streets of...
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Be patient and cooperate
By Abdellatif Sharaais natural for human beings to be apprehensive towards anything they are not familiar with or used to, even if it is to their benefit, and things become worse when it has to do with a natural phenomenon or a pandemic, which we are currently going through. We are lucky as advances have been made in the scientific domain and knowledge has expanded about discovering things and how to deal with them, and all we have to do is...
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Coronavirus in Kuwait: What we know so far
KUWAIT: Kuwait has so far recorded 417 cases infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as of Friday. With the exception of 16 cases in intensive care, all cases are in stable condition and are recovering in quarantined locations designated by the government for this purpose, while 911 have been discharged from quarantine after exhibiting no symptoms during their 14-day quarantine period, the Ministry of Health confirmed.Meanwhile, 93...
(FILES) This file photo taken on March 3, 2016, shows a an Iraqi national flag flying before front of excess gas being burnt off, at a pipeline in the newly opened section of the oil refinery of Zubair, southwest of Basra in southern Iraq. - As crude prices plunge, Iraq's oil sector is facing a triple threat that has slashed revenues, risks denting production and may spell trouble for future exports. (Photo by HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI / AFP)
Iraq's oil earnings plunge in March
This file photo shows a an Iraqi national flag flying before front of excess gas being burnt off, at a pipeline in the newly opened section of the oil refinery of Zubair, southwest of Basra in southern Iraq. As crude prices plunge, Iraq's oil sector is facing a triple threat that has slashed revenues, risks denting production and may spell trouble for future exports. -AFP BAGHDAD: Iraq's revenues from crude sales dropped by nearly half in March,...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 01, 2019 Spectators enter The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 1, 2019, on the first day of the 2019 Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament. - The 2020 Wimbledon Championships has been cancelled for the first time since World War II due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organisers said in a statement on April 1, 2020, as the virus wreaks further havoc on the global sporting calendar. (Photo by Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE
Wimbledon cancelled for the first time since WWII
LONDON: In this file photo, spectators enter The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London. The 2020 Wimbledon Championships has been cancelled for the first time since World War II due to the coronavirus pandemic. - AFP LONDON: Roger Federer and Serena Williams were among the tennis stars left devastated on Wednesday as Wimbledon was cancelled for the first time since World War II due to the coronavirus. The cancellation of the...
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Kuwait announces 25 new COVID-19 cases, total at 342
KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health said yesterday that 25 people were infected by the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, in the last 24 hours. This brings the country's tally of confirmed virus cases up to 342, the ministry's spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said in the daily briefing.Among the new cases are 10 patients who are under investigation to reveal how they contracted the virus, including six Indian nationals, one Bangladeshi...
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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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Hand of female holding sunscreen. Very sun light Sky background.Health concepts and skin care
‘Protect yourself against skin cancer,’ CAN warns
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The image shows a finger directing attention to A PET CT scan image shows comprehensive views of organs and tissues isolated on white background. Clipping path.
MoH underlines importance of compact imaging device