Tue 17 March 2020: Pandemics like Covid-19, alarming and destructive as they are, can serve a useful purpose if they remind everyone of the critical importance of public health. When a contagious disease strikes, even a society’s most protected elites must worry about the health of neglected populations. Those who have advocated privatisation and cost-cutting […]
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Tue 17 March 2020: $730M fund to be channeled to both public and private sector in IsDB member countries, to cushion impact of pandemic The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB Group) is setting up a special $730 million fund to mitigate the negative health and socioeconomic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The IsDB Group said on […]
Continue ReadingTue 17 March 2020: About 50,000 protective face masks have been stolen from a hospital warehouse in the northwestern German city of Cologne, local media reported on Tuesday. Police confirmed the incident, saying they were informed by an employee on Monday who had noticed the theft at the warehouse, which was used as a logistics […]
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Tue 17 March 2020: Algeria said Tuesday it will temporarily close mosques as part of efforts to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. In a statement, Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments Youcef Belmehdi said the daily congregational prayers and weekly Friday prayers will be suspended. Algeria has reported four deaths from coronavirus and […]
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Tue 17 March 2020: UN agency will enable online users to be automatically directed to WHO’s website to stop false news about COVID-19 Governments need to improve precautions about the spread, diagnosis and treatment of the coronavirus, World Health Organization’s (WHO) senior spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told Anadolu Agency on Monday. Chaib said emergency systems will […]
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Tue 17 March 2020: (REUTERS) British actor Idris Elba said on Monday he had tested positive for the new coronavirus, joining Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, among the first major celebrities to contract the respiratory disease. Elba, who starred in TV police drama “Luther” and played the Norse god Heimdall in “Avengers: Infinity […]
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Tue 17 March 2020: 45 adults taking part in trial, first participant has already received ‘investigational’ vaccine The first clinical trials for a novel coronavirus vaccine have begun with human test subjects, the National Institutes of Health announced Monday. The study is being run at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, Washington with […]
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Tue 17 March 2020: Iran has temporarily freed about 85,000 prisoners, including political prisoners, a spokesman for its judiciary said on Tuesday, in response to the coronavirus epidemic. “Some 50% of those released are security-related prisoners … Also in the jails we have taken precautionary measures to confront the outbreak,” said Gholamhossein Esmaili. On March […]
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Tue 17 March 2020: Education is up and running in Saudi Arabia, where six million male and female students are carrying on their studies through ‘virtual schools’ online. In the Kingdom, 20 broadcasting channels have been dedicated to offer lessons to all school grades from 8:00 am to 12:30 pm. An alternative has also been […]
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Tue 17 March 2020: The World Health Organization called on all countries on Monday to ramp up their testing programs as the best way to slow the advance of the coronavirus pandemic. “We have a simple message to all countries – test, test, test,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference in […]
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