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KUWAIT: Egyptian citizens queue at Kuwait International Airport before boarding a repatriation flight to Cairo on May 5, 2020. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Commercial flights to resume gradually in Kuwait, aviation authority confirms
KUWAIT: Egyptian citizens queue at Kuwait International Airport before boarding a repatriation flight to Cairo on May 5, 2020. -- Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat By B IzzakKUWAIT: Kuwait’s civil aviation authority said yesterday that they have designed a plan for a gradual resumption of commercial flights as soon as the government gives the green signal. Commercial flights have been suspended at Kuwait Airport for the past several weeks as part of...
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Foreign Minister oversees Kuwaitis' repatriation efforts at Nowaiseeb
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah visited Al-Nowaiseeb border crossing to oversee the end of repatriation efforts of nationals in Saudi Arabia. The endeavor to bring Kuwaitis stranded overseas home has reached its fifth stage. The minister, who heads the work team tasked with the affair, was accompanied by Kuwait Red Crescent Society's chief Dr Hilal Al-Sayer. He also visited Al-Khairan Resort, where...
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Kuwaiti team develops PCR solution for COVID-19 testing
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti medical team succeeded, in a short time, in developing a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) solution to be used for coronavirus tests, a surgeon said. This new technique, fully developed by Kuwaitis, has "excellent" diagnostic results which would have a qualitative leap, said Dr Salman Al-Sabah, head of Surgical Department at Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital. He said the World Health Organization (WHO) considered the PCR test the most...
A healthcare worker cleans and disinfects an ambulance after dropping a patient at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Danderyd Hospital near Stockholm during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - AFP
Antibody study shows long road to immunity; death toll mounts
A healthcare worker cleans and disinfects an ambulance after dropping a patient at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Danderyd Hospital near Stockholm during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - AFP STOCKHOLM: A Swedish study found that just 7.3 percent of Stockholmers developed COVID-19 antibodies by late April, which could fuel concern that a decision not to lock down Sweden against the pandemic may bring little herd immunity in the near future....
SATKHIRA: A man checks cars in a garage damaged by cyclone Amphan in Satkhira. - AFP
Social distancing ditched as Cyclone Amphal batters India and Bangladesh
SATKHIRA: A man checks cars in a garage damaged by cyclone Amphan in Satkhira. - AFP MIDNAPORE: Social distancing was futile for one frightened group of people fleeing Cyclone Amphan, who herded cows and chickens to a packed Indian evacuation bunker on Wednesday despite fears of coronavirus infection.  The shelter, west of Kolkata in Midnapore district, opened just before the strongest storm in decades collided into the nearby coast packing...
A Togolese soldier holding a machine gun keeps watch under a tree surrounded by used tyres as he monitors proceedings at Yemboate, the northern Togo border post with Burkina Faso.- AFP
Worried Togo finds itself on the front line of Sahel's jihadist war
A Togolese soldier holding a machine gun keeps watch under a tree surrounded by used tyres as he monitors proceedings at Yemboate, the northern Togo border post with Burkina Faso.- AFP DAPAONG: In a makeshift bunker of sacks of rice beneath a tree, heavily-armed Togolese soldiers keep watch over villagers coming and going on foot or bike across the border with Burkina Faso. Just a dried-out river bed separates the two West African countries. In...
CAIRO: A doctor at the Sheikh Zayed hospital in the Egyptian capital Cairo, shows members of a medical staff, wearing protective gear a patient in the isolated ward for COVID-19 coronavirus patients. – AFP
Egypt hospitals near 'critical threshold' in coronavirus fight
CAIRO: A doctor at the Sheikh Zayed hospital in the Egyptian capital Cairo, shows members of a medical staff, wearing protective gear a patient in the isolated ward for COVID-19 coronavirus patients. – AFP CAIRO: Three months after Egypt reported its first novel coronavirus case, medical experts warn the strained healthcare system of the Arab world's most populous nation is nearing a "critical threshold". Hospitals have been hit by a flight of...
TEHRAN: Iranians wearing face masks against the Covid-19 coronavirus attends Laylat Al-Qadr prayers - one of the holiest nights during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, outside a mosque in the Tehran. – AFP
Amnesty urges probe into ‘ruthless’ killings in Iran
TEHRAN: Iranians wearing face masks against the Covid-19 coronavirus attends Laylat Al-Qadr prayers - one of the holiest nights during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, outside a mosque in the Tehran. – AFP BEIRUT: Amnesty International has urged the United Nations to launch an inquiry into the killing of protesters by Iranian security forces, six months after they erupted over petrol prices. The demonstrations broke out across Iran on...
Vehicles of forces loyal to Libya's UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) are seen outside a checkpoint at Al-Watiya airbase also known as Okba Ibn Nafa airbase, which they seized control of, southwest of the capital Tripoli. – AFP
Libya frontline pullback puts eastern offensive in question
Vehicles of forces loyal to Libya's UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) are seen outside a checkpoint at Al-Watiya airbase also known as Okba Ibn Nafa airbase, which they seized control of, southwest of the capital Tripoli. – AFP TUNIS: The Libyan National Army (LNA) of eastern military commander Khalifa Haftar said it had pulled back from some Tripoli frontlines on Wednesday, calling into question its ability to sustain a...
SAO PAULO: Employees bury the coffin of a person who died from COVID-19 at the Vila Formosa cemetery, in the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil. – AFP
WHO reports record virus cases
SAO PAULO: Employees bury the coffin of a person who died from COVID-19 at the Vila Formosa cemetery, in the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil. – AFP WASHINGTON: The World Health Organization has reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases, as US President Donald Trump proposed hosting world leaders for the annual G7 summit as a sign of "normalization." The WHO said Wednesday that more than 106,000 virus cases had been reported...
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US fails to stop Chinese giant in its tracks
SHENZHEN: An instructor leading newly-hired Huawei employees in a class at Huawei University in Dongguan in China's southern Guangdong province. Construction cranes at Huawei's headquarters in the city of Shenzhen, neighboring Dongguan, busily expand an already massive faux-European campus that Walt Disney would envy, as well as an in-house "university" that trains the Chinese telecom giant's growing global workforce.—AFP SHENZHEN:...
Muna Al-Fuzai
Back to work
Muna Al-Fuzai The days of the comprehensive curfew are close to their end, according to the date that was previously set by the Kuwaiti government - May 30. I think a partial curfew is possible as a preparation for people to return to work gradually, so it is natural for everyone to think about returning to business.I think the reopening of malls and businesses is an essential step for economic activity to be restored gradually, taking into...
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