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President Donald Trump on Friday announced a $19 billion relief program to help U.S. farmers cope with the impact of the coronavirus, including $16 billion in direct payments to producers and mass purchases of meat, dairy, vegetables, and other products, reported Reuters. The U.S. Agriculture Department is partnering with regional and local distributors to purchase $3 billion in such farm goods to be distributed to food banks, churches and aid groups as millions of Americans face unemployment with much of the economy shut down. “American agriculture has been hard-hit, like most of America, with the coronavirus, and President Trump is…

India is set to locally produce 10 lakh kits per month each of RT-PCR testing and rapid antibody detection tests for COVID-19 from May, reducing dependence on imports amid soaring global demand caused by the pandemic. Efforts in areas of diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines are also being monitored on a war footing, the health ministry said. According to the Times of India, the present ventilator manufacturing capacity in India is 6,000 a month. The centre along with states have also expedited work on dedicated COVID hospitals. While India received five lakh rapid antibody testing kits from China on Thursday after…

Acting Director of Information Systems at the Ministry of Education, Nadia Al-Muraisi, has revealed that there had been more than 5.7 million visits to the educational portal (eduNet) since the suspension of studying in the third week of February until April 14th, adding that the Education Ministry has been able to respond quickly to 40,705 technical assistance requests by users through a special page at the portal. Al-Muraisi added that in light of the increasing use of the educational portal for online education, the Ministry has developed the technical assistance service for users, including students, teachers, and parents, to solve…

The Omani Health Ministry Saturday confirmed 111 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s total infections to 1,180 and six deaths. The latest patients are 33 Omanis and 78 foreigners, the ministry added in an update without giving a breakdown. The total recoveries from the highly infectious ailment have reached 176, the ministry added, according to the Omani news agency ONA. The ministry urged people to strictly comply with health isolation measures and to frequently wash hands with water and soap as well as observe social and physical distancing to halt the spread of the highly contagious virus.

The Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Ahmad Al-Manzari, praised the measures taken by Kuwait in response to the coronavirus pandemic, describing it as swift, decisive, and inclusiveness. The remarks came in an interview with KUNA Saturday on the sidelines of an online discussion session held by Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development under the title (Towards a Flat Curve: The Global Response to Coronavirus). Al-Manzari stressed that Kuwait has strong and well-established health systems and has qualified medical personnel in addition to highly equipped health facilities. He said that WHO is in regular contact…

A group representing the homeless is asking to use the Athletes Village for next year’s Tokyo Olympics as a shelter during the coronavirus pandemic, the Associated Press (AP) reported. An online petition addressed to Tokyo Olympic organizers and the city government has drawn tens of thousands of signatures for permission to occupy the massive housing complex going up alongside Tokyo Bay. The village was to be home to 11,000 Olympic athletes and 4,400 Paralympic athletes. It is largely complete and empty with the Olympic opening postponed by the virus outbreak until July 23, 2021. “We don’t know how long this…

WHO is joining forces with many of the world’s leading musicians, comedians, and humanitarians for the “One World, Together At Home” virtual global special. “This is the result of a close collaboration with my good friend Hugh Evans from Global Citizen, and the inspirational Lady Gaga, to bring entertainment, joy, and hope into the homes of people all around the world, whose lives have been turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO. This virtual concert, organized by WHO and international advocacy organization Global Citizen, will bring together people who are affected by…

BRAVE Combat Federation is the first and only global mixed martial arts organization to initiate an awareness campaign against the Coronavirus pandemic. BRAVE CF has invited fighters from all over the world to send videos and has empowered them with the chance of becoming ambassadors for the cause in their own communities, by giving out information to their fans and followers which will help curb the spread of the virus. Athletes from all corners of the world have answered the call as they have forwarded and spread their words of encouragement, training videos and tutorials on how to keep the…

23 new cases of COVID-19 have been registered today. 15 new recoveries have been reported in Bahrain. Bahrain tested a total of 82561 until now. There are 1019 active cases. These include 1016 stable cases and 3 critical cases. 741 people have been discharged. Only 7 deaths have been reported until now. This takes the total cases in Bahrain to 1767. The Ministry of Health announced the death of a 60-year-old Bahraini citizen on 14th April, who has underlying chronic diseases and health issues. The deceased got the necessary treatment and care around the clock by the specialized medical team and…

Bahrain to join the Arab world in celebrating the 45th edition of the Arab Deaf Week under the theme “The Right of the Deaf to an Easy Marriage Supported by Social Institutions”. The event is remarked the last week of April every year as a reminder of the deaf in the society, in order with the recommendations of the 2nd conference of the Arab Federation of Deaf Organizations, which was conducted in Damascus from 24 to 26 April of 1974. The event targets to raise the awareness of the deaf’s rightness and abilities and ways to put a stop at this defect.…