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The Royal Thai Embassy in Bahrain facilitated the repatriation of over 240 Thai nationals. According to the Embassy, the returnees faced unemployment or were employed in saloons, restaurants and spas which were affected due to the pandemic. H.E. Thanis Na Songkhla, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand and Kanita Sapphaisal, the Head of Consular Affairs of Thailand and other Thai Embassy staff helped with the facilitation of distressed Thai nationals. The embassy noted that this was the second repatriation flight and a total of 314 Thai nationals have returned home. https://www.facebook.com/starvisionnews/videos/246583569781027/ Meanwhile, the Royal Thai Embassy as part of the…

An Indian National has been granted special permission to return to India after having being diagnosed with an infection. Are Anjaiah hailing from Andhra Pradesh earlier this month was diagnosed with a deep fungal infection and had been referred for further specialist treatment. The 60-year-old was provided with a ticket to Hyderabad after his plight was considered and approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health. Anjaiah thanked the Indian Embassy’s second secretary PK Chowdhury and other Embassy officials for their prompt support. Over 180 Indian Nationals will return to Hyderabad, India today as part…

United States President Donald Trump has threatened to permanently pull funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) if it does not commit to “major substantive improvements” within 30 days, according to a letter to the WHO chief shared by Trump on Twitter. In a four-page letter to WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Trump set out what he called “repeated missteps” by the organization. Trump claimed that the WHO shares the responsibility for a large number of deaths in the crisis. He charged that mismanagement on the part of the WHO and reliance on information from China had dramatically worsened the epidemic and spread…

The Omani MOH has announced 292 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the total cases in the sultanate to 5,671. Most of the newly admitted cases are from non-Omanis, which is 173 and the rest 119 from Omanis, according to the Ministry of Health. MOH has confirmed the death of a 57-year-old foreign resident with coronavirus, raising the total death toll in the Sultanate to 26. 78 new recoveries from coronavirus have been reported in the sultanate, increasing the number of recoveries to 1,574.

The Omani MOH has announced the death of a 57-year-old foreign resident with coronavirus (COVID-19), raising the total number of COVID-19 deaths registered in the Sultanate to 26. The MOH extended its deepest condolences to the family of the deceased. Oman has 5,379 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,496 recoveries, according to the MOH. [bkinfobox textcolor=”#000000″ backgroundcolor=”#ffffff” title=”” infobox_align=”aligncenter”] [/bkinfobox]

Jacinda Ardern, the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand has come out to be the most popular prime minister in a century, according to the Newshub-Reid Research poll showed on Monday. It was the first public poll since the coronavirus pandemic took over showed popularity for Ardern’s Labour jumped 14 points to 56.5% – the highest for any party ever. Conversely, the biggest party in parliament – the Nationals, slumped to 30.6%, after sliding by 12.7 points, Reuters reports. The poll was conducted between May 8 and May 16, with half of the responses taken after the federal budget on Thursday. As preferred…

The Omani MOH has announced 193 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the total cases in the sultanate to 5,379. Most of the newly admitted cases are from non-Omanis, which is 121 and the rest 72 from Omanis, according to the Ministry of Health. MOH has confirmed the death of a 46-year-old resident with coronavirus, raising the total death toll in the Sultanate to 23. 31 new recoveries from coronavirus have been reported in the sultanate, increasing the number of recoveries in the country to 1,496. [bkinfobox textcolor=”#000000″ backgroundcolor=”#ffffff” title=”” infobox_align=”aligncenter”] [/bkinfobox]

Oman has announced the death of a 46-year-old resident with coronavirus (COVID-19), raising the total death toll in the Sultanate to 23, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH). MOH extended its deepest condolences to the family of the deceased.  Oman has 5,029 total cases and 1,465 recoveries, according to the government statics.

Bahrain is having the lowest fatalities (12) and the second-lowest total confirmed cases (6,956) among the GCC countries. It is a great achievement for a country that did not impose a lockdown. Saudi Arabia has the most fatalities and COVID-19 cases in GCC. Bahrain is the first country in the world to offer COVID-19 test results by WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Bahrain’s contact tracing app ‘BeAware’ has over 400,000 downloads, making it listed as one of the best Middle Eastern COVID-19 apps by Forbes Middle East. Bahrain has announced 6,956 total confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which most of the cases are among expatriate workers.  2,910 recoveries…

Bahrain has 26 new COVID-19 cases, of which 23 are among expatriate workers and 3 are contacts of active cases, this takes today’s cases to 209. These new cases bring up the total cases in the kingdom to 6,956 and there are 4,034 active cases of which 8 are critical and the rest stable, according to the Ministry of Health.  MOH also reported 136 new recoveries from COVID-19, bringing the total recoveries in the country to 2,910. Bahrain has so far conducted 236,828COVID-19 tests for the early detection of the virus. So far Bahrain has reported 12 fatalities due to health…