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UAE Government has announced that 50 percent of the employees in the headquarters of federal ministries, agencies and institutions will return to work from June 7. This decision comes a week after the return of 30% of the total number of employees in the federal authorities successfully. Excluding pregnant women, people of determination, those suffering from chronic diseases and immune deficiencies, as well as employees of the elderly class, and employees who have to take care for their children from grade 9 and below, and who have children in foster care or take care of at home those whose condition…

UAE has announced 571 new cases, and 1 fatality from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the total cases in the country to 36,359, according to the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP). The new death takes the total fatalities to 270. 427 new recoveries were also announced, bringing the total recoveries to 19,153. This means over 50 percent of the confirmed cases have fully recovered from the virus. The new cases were found after conducting more than 41,000 coronavirus tests across the country, The ministry expressed its sincere condolences to the families of the deceased and wished a speedy recovery to…

The World Health Organization’s Data Safety and Monitoring Committee has recommended for WHO to continue studying hydroxychloroquine as a potential COVID-19 treatment in its Solidarity Trial, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a media briefing in Geneva on Wednesday. Last week, WHO announced that it had temporarily paused the hydroxychloroquine arms of the trial due to concerns surrounding the drug’s safety. “This decision was taken as a precaution while the safety data were reviewed. The Data Safety and Monitoring Committee of the Solidarity Trial has been reviewing the data,” Tedros said on Wednesday. “On the basis of the available mortality data, the members of…

Researchers are learning more about how COVID-19 affects children, and a new study finds that among a group of children and adolescents in New York who were hospitalized with the disease, about a fifth — 22% — had obesity. The study, published in the journal The Lancet on Wednesday, suggests that having obesity could put a child at an increased risk of getting severely ill with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.  “The significance of obesity as an independent risk factor for severity is now being increasingly described in adult studies of COVID-19, so it was interesting that many of the hospitalized patients in this…

Capital Governor, Hisham bin Abdulrahman, has followed up on the distribution of 3,000 food baskets, within the “Your Food at Your Home” initiative launched by the Royal Humanitarian Foundation (RHF), in cooperation with the Interior Ministry. The initiative is in implementation of the directives of HM the King’s Representative for Humanitarian Work and Youth Affairs, National Security Advisor and RHF’s Board of Trustees Chairman, HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, to support Bahraini families and citizens who have been affected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The governor lauded HH Shaikh Nasser’s directives to launch the “Feena Khair” campaign to…

“The Bahrain health ministry has reached more than 330,000 laboratory examinations, which is among the highest when looking at the country’s population,” said Dr. Jameela Al Salman, Consultant of Infectious and Internal Diseases at Salmaniya Medical Complex “A large number of people have recovered during the past days and the speed of the recoveries have increased due to the established treatment protocol and ongoing care,” she noted. The country’s highest daily recovery is 847, which was on 31st May. Bahrain has reported a total of 12,311 cases of which 7,407 have recovered making over 60 percent of the confirmed cases to recover from…

Bahrain has increased the capacity of isolation and treatment centres according to the plan developed by the national medical team to combat the coronavirus. “The capacity of the isolation and treatment centers reached 7187 beds, of which 4884 beds are occupied, while the capacity of the precautionary quarantine centers reached 3410 beds, of which 599 beds are occupied,” said Dr. Waleed Khalifa Al Manea, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health. He recalled the importance of wearing mask in public spaces and urged everyone to call 444 if any symptoms faced, and to stay in isolation. Also Read: Coronavirus: Increase in cases among…

An increase in coronavirus cases among the Bahrainis was noticed by the MOH in recent days. “The reasons for the increase in the number of cases among the citizens are due to family and social gatherings during Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr, and going out for non-necessities,” said Dr. Waleed Khalifa Al Manea, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health. He recalled the importance of wearing mask in public spaces and urged everyone to call 444 if any symptoms faced, and to stay in isolation. Also Read:  Coronavirus: Bahrain registers 20th death Bahrain has mobilised all resources required to safeguard public health: Crown…

Bahrain MOH has announced the death of a 37-year-old male expatriate, a registered active case of coronavirus (COVID-19) suffering from underlying and chronic health problems, taking the country’s total deaths to 20. The Ministry of Health expresses its heartfelt condolences to the individual’s family at this difficult time. The patient, along with all other active COVID-19 cases, had been placed in isolation and received extensive 24-hour treatment from a specialised medical team. About the COVID-19 Deaths: Read more about the 19th death – Click Here Read more about the 18th death – Click Here Read more about the 17th death – Click Here…

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi got an invitation from U.S. President Donald Trump to attend the next Group of Seven summit, India’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Tuesday. Over a telephone call, Modi told Trump that New Delhi would be happy to work with the United States and other countries to ensure the success of the next G7 summit, it said in a statement. Trump said on Saturday he was postponing until September the summit that had been scheduled for late June in Camp David, the U.S. president’s country retreat, and that he wanted to invite Australia, Russia, South Korea…