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A record number of Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits last week, as businesses shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Initial jobless claims soared to a seasonally adjusted 3.28 million in the week ended March 21, according to the Department of Labor. That is the highest number of initial jobless claims in history since the Department of Labor started tracking the data in 1967. The previous high was 695,000 claims filed in the week ending October 2, 1982. “Most historical comparisons of this scale are inadequate. The closest would be natural disasters like major…

Mylab becomes the first Indian company to have received the validation for its Covid-19 diagnostic test kits. In the current lab-based testing it takes four hours for test results to come out, Mylab’s turn around time is 2 1/2 hours, said Dr. Gautam Wankhde, Medical Director Mylab to ET. The company’s kits can study 1000 samples from large labs and 200 from smaller labs. Mylabs is looking to price its kits around INR 1200 to1500.

Manama: In keeping with HRH the Crown Prince & First Deputy Premier Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa’s promise of food security as the Kingdom meets the COVID-19 crisis, Lulu Hypermarket too has come on board to ensure that the Kingdom’s fruit and vegetable requirements are met without interruption. https://youtu.be/BsGHXs0EifY As part of #TeamBahrain, Lulu, the largest retail group in the Kingdom, today ( MARCH 25) received a special consignment of fresh fruits and vegetables from India that was flown in on a special chartered Gulf Airplane. It is the first time that a private company in Bahrain is exclusively…

Bahrain tested a total of 28502 until now. There are 225 active cases. These include 224 stable cases and 1 critical case. 190 people have been discharged. Only 4 death has been reported until now. Read more about the fourth death – Click Here Read more about the third death – Click Here Read more about the second death – Click Here

The Ministry of Health has today announced the death of a 78-year-old male Bahraini national, a registered active case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) who was suffering from underlying and chronic health problems. The deceased male, who had contracted the virus after being in contact with another active COVID-19 case, was placed in isolation and received extensive 24-hour treatment from a specialized medical team. The Ministry highlighted that, excluding one case, all other active COVID-19 cases remain stable and all patients continue to receive treatment from a specialized medical team following guidelines provided by the WHO.

The Health Ministry has announced that the second group of Bahrainis will be evacuated from Iran tonight. The flight will reach Bahrain tonight, it added. The ministry said it has also activated precautionary measures to ensure the safety of citizens arriving as part of the evacuation procedure.

Bahrain’s national carrier announced today that it will restrict the entry of passengers through the Bahrain International Airport to Bahrain citizens and residents only. This was confirmed by Gulf Air on its official page on Twitter today, stating: “All passengers including transit passengers into Bahrain International Airport have been restricted to citizens and residents of Bahrain and passengers with a valid Prior Permission Granted letter.” However, no statements were available from the Civil Aviation Affairs in the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications if the same will be applied to other airlines.  This comes while many countries, including fellow GCC countries,…

Prince Charles, the 71-year-old heir to the British throne, has tested positive for coronavirus but is in good health and is now self-isolating in Scotland with mild symptoms. Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth, is displaying what Clarence House said were mild symptoms but remains in good health and has been working from his Birkhall residence in Scotland. His wife, Camilla, 72, tested negative. “The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus,” Clarence House said. “He has been displaying mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health and has been working from home throughout the last few days…

US President Trump continued to downplay the exponential spread of the coronavirus in the United States on Monday, comparing the rising death toll to the number of Americans killed in car crashes and by the seasonal flu. “We have a very active flu season, more active than most,” Trump said at a Monday briefing of the White House coronavirus task force, reverting to how he had described the coronavirus throughout February and early March before he started to take the outbreak more seriously. “It’s looking like it’s heading to 50,000 or more deaths,” he went on, speaking of flu-related mortality.…

Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month, part of what a senior agency official said was a more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks. WHO Chief Information Security Officer Flavio Aggio said the identity of the hackers was unclear and the effort was unsuccessful. But he warned that hacking attempts against the agency and its partners have soared as they battle to contain the coronavirus, which has killed more than 15,000 worldwide, Reuters reported. The attempted break-in at the WHO was first flagged to Reuters by Alexander Urbelis, a cybersecurity expert and attorney with the…