Mon 30 March 2020: Hi-tech thermal drones have been used in the Qassim region of Saudi Arabia to monitor the body temperatures of customers in open spaces like the livestock market in Buraidah, as part of precautionary measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The drones are equipped with thermal cameras operating on artificial […]
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Mon 30 March 2020: Qatar will be sending $150 million in aid to the besieged Gaza Strip to support United Nations humanitarian programmes and efforts to help combat the new coronavirus outbreak, the state-run Qatari Committee to Rebuild Gaza said in a statement. The emergency aid, which will cover a period of six months, The […]
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Mon 30 March 2020: When Nima Amraa returned to Gaza from neighbouring Egypt earlier this month, she was surprised to learn she was being placed in a makeshift quarantine center set up by the ruling Hamas group. But her initial jitters turned to fear when two fellow travelers in another facility tested positive for the […]
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FILE PHOTO Mon 30 March 2020: Inmates at a prison in Iran staged a riot on Sunday night over fears of a coronavirus outbreak at the facility, local media reported. According to Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), the protest broke out at 10 p.m. (1730GMT) in two sections of Adel Abad Prison in Iran’s south-central […]
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Mon 30 March 2020: Ehsan Hadadi, Iran’s first Olympic track and field medallist, has tested positive for coronavirus, Reuters reported on Saturday. Hadadi, the Asian discus champion who became a national hero when he won silver at the 2012 Olympics in London, has an athletics base in the US but was at home in Tehran when he […]
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Mon 30 March 2020: President extending social distancing guidelines through April 30 President Donald Trump said Sunday that the death rate in the U.S. from the novel coronavirus would likely hit a peak in two weeks. “The modeling estimates that the peak in death rate is likely to hit in two weeks,” Trump said at […]
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Mon 30 March 2020: (REUTERS) Some Shia pilgrims returning to Iraq from Syria have tested positive for coronavirus, raising concern that such pilgrim travel could be a source for a larger spread of the disease around the country, a senior Iraqi official and health officials said on Sunday. So far, Iraq has recorded 547 coronavirus […]
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Mon 30 March 2020: The coronavirus epidemic in the United Kingdom is showing signs of slowing and antibody tests could be ready in days, Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, said on Monday. “We think the epidemic is just about slowing in the UK right now,” Ferguson told BBC radio. […]
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Mon 30 March 2020: The number of international tourist arrivals will fall by 20-30 percent in 2020 due to the novel coronavirus, putting millions of jobs at risk, the World Tourism Organization said Friday. This revises sharply lower a forecast made earlier this month of a decline of just 1.0-3.0 percent. The drop in arrivals […]
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Mon 30 March 2020: Sales of art and other luxury products have surged in the first months of 2020 as the coronavirus pushes investors to change what they are buying, according to a report by luxury auctioneer Sotheby’s. Equities and commodities have fallen drastically since the coronavirus pandemic, officially known as COVID-19, continues its spread […]
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