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A Kuwaiti livestock ship was being held off Australia’s west coast after six crew members tested positive for COVID-19, authorities said on Tuesday, heightening concerns over how arrivals by sea are handled, according to Arab News. The Al Kuwait left the Middle East on May 7 and docked near the city of Perth on May 22 after telling the Australian immigration and agriculture authorities that some crew members had raised temperatures, Western Australia state premier Mark McGowan said. Six crew later tested positive for the new coronavirus and were taken to hotels on land for quarantine while the state police…

The UAE’s Ministry of Health and Prevention has confirmed 779 new coronavirus cases, state news agency WAM reported on Tuesday. The new cases were detected after conducting over 28,000 new tests, increasing the total number of infected people in the country to 31,086. The authority has also reported five more fatalities, bringing the death toll to 253. There were also 325 further recoveries, bumping the total number of patients to recover to 15,982. Meanwhile the Emirate of Dubai – which has a massive expat population and is popular with tourists – has announced an additional easing of coronavirus regulations to…

Oman has reported 348 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the total cases in the sultanate to 8,118. Most of the newly admitted cases are from foreigners, which is 177 and the rest 171 from Omanis, according to the Ministry of Health. The sultanate has been the least badly affected Arab Gulf state, but cases have begun to rise more steeply in the past week. MOH has not reported any new death from coronavirus, keeping the total death toll in the Sultanate to 37. 134 new recoveries from coronavirus have been reported in the sultanate, increasing the number of recoveries to…

Kuwait has reported 608 new coronavirus cases, taking the total confirmed cases in the country 22,575, according to the Ministry of Health. 7 patients died of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 172. 685 new recoveries have been reported in the country, raising the total recoveries to 7,306. Kuwait has done 2,395 NP swab tests in the past 24 hours, as the country ramps up its efforts to test more people and detect cases early, according to the health ministry spokesman. So far, Kuwait has conducted more than 276,207 coronavirus tests. Also…

The risks of reigniting coronavirus outbreaks are complicating efforts to fend off further misery for the many millions who have lost jobs, with a top health expert warning that the world is still in the midst of a “first wave” of the pandemic. “Right now, we’re not in the second wave. We’re right in the middle of the first wave globally,” said Dr. Mike Ryan, a World Health Organization executive director. “We’re still very much in a phase where the disease is actually on the way up,” Ryan told reporters, pointing to South America, South Asia and other areas where…

Bahrain has reported 52 new COVID-19 cases among 39 expatriate workers and 13 contacts of active cases. The newly admitted cases were found after testing 3000 individuals in the past 24 hours. These new cases bring up the total cases in the kingdom to 9,223 and there are 4,293 active cases of which 9 are critical and the rest stable, according to the Ministry of Health.  There are currently 25 COVID-19 cases receiving treatment. MOH also reported 163 new recoveries from COVID-19, bringing the total recoveries in the country to 4,916. Bahrain has so far conducted 285,373 COVID-19 tests for the early…

Eldar Eldarov, BRAVE Combat Federation’s Super Lightweight world champion, is the latest guest in Mohamed Al Hosani’s popular podcast Mo Hasani 360, the biggest MMA show in the Middle East. During the chat, Hosani took us on a journey from  Eldar’s beginnings to current day success and got an up-close and personal chat with the BRAVE CF champion. He spoke at length about his beginnings in Dagestan, the progress through wrestling and combat sambo, and finally, his rise to become the best Super Lightweight in the world of mixed martial arts. Also working as Team Bahrain head coach in MMA,…

UAE announced 822 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total cases in the country to 30,307, according to the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP). MoHAP also announced the death of 3 more people from COVID-19, rising the country’s death toll to 248. 601 new recoveries have been reported in the UAE, bringing the total recoveries to 15,657, according to the health ministry. The new cases were identified after conducting more than 41,000 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours, the ministry noted. The ministry expressed its sincere condolences to the families of the deceased and wished a speedy recovery to…

Interior Ministry personnel have taken an immediate measure against the gathering of expatriates, which violates the decision to prevent gatherings of more than 5. Interior Ministry personnel have asserted their commitments to enforce the security instructions during Eid Al Fitr. https://www.facebook.com/starvisionnews/videos/1642229199267684/ Also Read: Coronavirus: Saudi Arabia records 2,235 new cases, 9 deaths Coronavirus: Bahrain reports 1 death, 166 recoveries Coronavirus: Kuwait records 665 new cases, 9 deaths UAE sends COVID-19 medical aid to Congo

Saudi Arabia has reported 2,235 new coronavirus infections during the past 24 hours, raising the total to 74,795, according to the health ministry. Ministry also reported 2,148 recoveries on Monday, taking the overall number of recovered cases to 45,668. Meanwhile, 9 more people succumbed to the deadly virus taking the total number of COVID-19 related fatalities in the Kingdom to 399. Riyadh topped the list of new cases with 765 infections, followed by Makkah (416), Jeddah (350), Madinah (184), Dammam (113) and Al Jubail (74). The ministry continues to urge people to only go out when absolutely necessary and to…