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People wearing face masks ride along a street in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on March 29, 2020. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP)

Getting better: China's new virus cases trending lower

WUHAN: People wearing face masks ride along a street in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province yesterday. - AFP WUHAN: China reported 45 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Saturday, down from 54 on the previous day, with all but one involving travelers from overseas, the country's health authority said yesterday. In the last seven days, China has reported 313 imported cases of coronavirus but only 6 confirmed cases of domestic...

Muna Al-Fuzai

By Muna Al-Fuzaicoronavirus has exposed the vulnerability and strength of the health system of almost every country in the world. It clearly showed that no country can claim to be proud of being the strongest in terms of its health system because the number of coronavirus infections, specifically deaths, and the ability of each system to provide treatment are the best criteria, and numbers don't lie. There is no doubt that most countries in...

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MOH launches meds delivery service

Jaber Hospital. KUWAIT: Kuwait's Ministry of Health (MOH) launched yesterday a new medicine delivery service for people in Kuwait, which they can use to order medications to be delivered during curfew hours. The medications will be delivered within 72 hours after the order is submitted. To place an order, patients should send a WhatsApp to the numbers for the hospitals and medical centers as listed below. The patient should include their name,...

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Customers with high temperatures not allowed into supermarkets

KUWAIT: People lined up outside a vegetables' store in Hawally. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh By A SalehKUWAIT: Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Waleed Al-Jassem announced issuing a decision mandating measuring the temperature of all supermarket and store staff and customers prior to entry and reporting any case with temperatures above 37 degrees centigrade. Jassem added that he had issued several decisions and directives to help limit...

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Kuwait condemns 'heinous attacks' on Saudi Arabia

KUWAIT: Kuwait strongly condemns the "heinous" rockets' attacks on Saudi Arabian cities of Riyadh and Jazan on Saturday, a foreign ministry source said. This "cowardly attack does not only target security of the Kingdom and safety of its people, but the security and stability of the Gulf region," the source said in a statement. The attacks, he added, were violating international law and came at a time the whole world was mobilizing efforts to...

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Coronavirus in Kuwait: What we know so far

KUWAIT: Kuwait has so far recorded 255 cases infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). With the exception of eleven cases in critical condition, all cases are in stable condition and are recovering in quarantined locations designated by the government for this purpose, while 910 have been discharged from quarantine after exhibiting no symptoms during their 14-day quarantine period, the Ministry of Health confirmed. Meanwhile, 67 people...

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Amiri Hospital stays in touch with patients online

By Meshaal Al-Enezi KUWAIT: Capital health zone director Dr Afrah Al-Sarraf announced launching the Amiri Hospital online portal to communicate with hospital patients, both citizens and expatriates. Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting she headed to launch the service, Sarraf said the new platform had been devised in view of the current health circumstances and as part of measures taken by the hospital to limit the spread of the coronavirus...

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Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes space photograph of Kuwait

KUWAIT: An satellite image of Kuwait captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on July 25, 2019. -- European Space Agency (ESA) KUWAIT: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this satellite image of Kuwait on July 25, 2019. The image was received at the Matera Space Centre (Italy), where Italian-headquartered aerospace and defense company Leonardo - through the joint venture e-GEOS (Telespazio 80 percent / Italian Space Agency 20...

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Shortage of onions, other veggies

By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: There is a shortage of onions and other vegetables in many supermarkets and groceries all over Kuwait. In some hypermarkets, produce is available, but for 500 to 750 fils per kilo instead of the regular 250 to 385 fils per kilo. Yesterday, Kuwait Times went around Salmiya, Rai, Farwaniya and Kuwait City and found very little to no vegetables in the storage and display sections of stores. In some co-ops too, there are...

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Minivan caught fire in Khaitan

By Hanan Al-SaadounKUWAIT: Firemen put out a blaze in a minivan parked in an open area in Khaitan Saturday night. Farwaniya Fire Station men arrived to the scene minutes after the fire was reported, and managed to extinguish the flames before they could spread to other vehicles parked nearby. No injuries were reported, and an investigation was opened to determine the cause of the blaze, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) said.

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Curfew Diaries - The wish jar

By Jamie Etheridge a friend posted this really cool idea on Facebook. Set up a wish jar with a stack of Post-it notes and a pen in your house. Each time someone in your family wishes they could go shopping at the mall, meet up with friends for a night out, go to a restaurant and have a meal, take a short holiday abroad or anything else currently made impossibly by the global pandemic, write the idea on a note and drop it into the wish jar....

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Shortages hamper virus testing goals

Existing tests, called RT-PCR, are designed to detect the virus in respiratory specimens from nasal or oral swabs, based on genetic analysis. - AFP PARIS: "Test, test, test". The World Health Organization's prescription for success in wrestling the new coronavirus pandemic under control may seem simple. So why are so few countries able to follow it? While nations like South Korea have been praised for their decisive efforts to control the...

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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA

Kuwait weather to remain unstable

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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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