Mon 16 March 2020: The United Arab Emirates suspended prayer in all houses of worship including mosques across the country as of Monday evening for four weeks, as part of the country’s efforts to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Developing. Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!
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Mon 16 March 2020: Mosques will stay open for people who want to do individual prayers, says head of Religious Affairs Directorate Turkish religious body on Monday has suspended all congregational prayers in mosques until further notice as a protective measures against the coronavirus outbreak. Ali Erbaş, head of the Religious Affairs Directorate, said on […]
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Mon 16 March 2020: Microsoft has launched a new interactive Bing map to provide information on the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The map shows the amount of cases on a per country basis, broken down by the number of currently active cases, recovered cases, and fatal cases. In the US, meanwhile, […]
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Mon 16 March 2020: As the state of emergency continues in the West Bank and Israel in the wake of the outbreak of coronavirus, Palestinians are worried about their relatives held in Israeli prisons. The fears of an outbreak of the virus in the prisons were compounded by reports that an inmate at the Ashkelon […]
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Mon 16 March 2020: The first experimental coronavirus vaccine will be administered to a patient on Monday, AP News reported, according to a US government official. The trial in Seattle, which is funded by The National Institutes of Health, will bring together 45 young, healthy volunteers who will receive different doses of shots co-developed by NIH and Moderna Inc, […]
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Mon 16 March 2020: Several African governments closed borders, canceled flights and imposed strict entry and quarantine requirements to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, which has a foothold in at least 26 countries on the continent as cases keep rising. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national state of disaster and warned […]
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Mon 16 March 2020: Rather than imposing damaging and ineffective travel bans, African authorities should focus on mitigating the pandemic. In April 1914, as Europe was moving towards war, Dakar, the capital of present-day Senegal, was hit by an epidemic of bubonic plague that within a year, according to one account, wiped out nearly 15 percent […]
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Mon 16 March 2020: (REUTERS) VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis ventured into a deserted Rome on Sunday to pray at two shrines for the end of the coronavirus pandemic, as the Vatican said his Easter services will be held without the public for the first time. Francis left the Vatican unannounced to pray at the Basilica […]
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Mon 16 March 2020: Qatar has announced a series of measures, including the suspension of all incoming flights for a preliminary two-week period, as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The moves were announced on Sunday following a meeting between Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the Supreme Committee for Crisis Management. […]
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Mon 16 March 2020: Business across the world have been shutting up shop and sending employees home as fears of the spreading coronavirus pandemic prompt extra precautions by employers. As employees stay home, questions have been raised on what the best way to work at home is and how to stay productive and maintain workflow. […]
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