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Bahrain has announced the death of a 60-year-old male expatriate from coronavirus. So far the total has reached up to 87. It’s the third death recorded today. The MOH expressed its condolences to the family of the deceased. ♦ About half of the population tested, confirms Jameela Al-Salman ♦ Bahrain gives utmost safety for health workers ♦ Making the COVID-19 cases zero is not a miracle, but an achievement: Al-Qahtani The total cases have driven to 26,239 of which 20,928 have recovered, which means that over 79 percent of the confirmed cases have recovered from the virus. Currently, there are 5,224 active cases. Also, there are…

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Airbus is set to announce on Tuesday a restructuring involving thousands of job cuts as it deals with the fallout from impact of the coronavirus crisis, union officials said, with some sources predicting some 15,000 jobs are to go. Airbus, which has said it will announce fresh action by the end of July after introducing temporary furloughs, declined to comment. Its shares rose 1%. Industry sources have predicted between 14,000 and 20,000 job cuts, though it remains unclear how much will be achieved through early retirements in Airbus’s 135,000-strong workforce, heavily populated by veterans of its original A320 development. Two…

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Prior to manufacturers releasing their products for sale, the goods have to go through a process of quality inspection during which inspectors assiduously make sure the items are in good shape and meet the necessary standards. During the process, the inspectors can detect various defects ranging from cracked screens on phones, scratched logos on TVs or paint that’s off on cars. “Generally, what we hear in the industry is that humans at best are 80% accurate,” Arye Barnehama, a 30 under 30 honoree from this year’s manufacturing and industry list, says. “There’s a lot of tasks that are very human-driven, someone has…

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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will see their economies shrink by 7.6% this year, an International Monetary Fund official said on Tuesday, revising downwards April forecasts of nearly 3%. The six GCC nations are, with varying degrees, facing steep economic declines as the slowdown in business activity due to the coronavirus pandemic is amplified by a price drop in hydrocarbons, which are their main source of revenue. The IMF last week said Saudi Arabia’s economy – the largest in the Arab world – faces a 6.8% contraction this year, sharper than the 2.3% the Washington-based lender had forecast in April.…

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Facebook said on Monday it would submit itself to an audit of how it controls hate speech in a bid to appease a growing advertising boycott of the platform, as it prepared to address a group of advertisers on Tuesday. The move comes as major advertisers such as Unilever and Starbucks have signed on to the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign started by U.S. civil rights groups, which urges brands to pause their Facebook ads in July to pressure the social media giant to do more to take down hate speech. Media Rating Council, a media measurement firm, will conduct the…

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A study of coronavirus infections that covered almost everyone in the quarantined north Italian town of Vò found that 40% of cases showed no symptoms – suggesting that asymptomatic cases are important in the spread of the pandemic. The study, led by a scientist at Italy’s Padua University and Imperial College London, also produced evidence that mass testing combined with case isolation and community lockdowns can stop local outbreaks swiftly. “Despite ‘silent’ and widespread transmission, the disease can be controlled,” said Andrea Crisanti, a professor at Padua and Imperial who co-led the work. “Testing of all citizens, whether or not…

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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan told parliament on Tuesday he had no doubt that India was behind an attack on the stock exchange building in the southern city of Karachi. Four gunmen armed with grenades attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange on Monday, killing two guards and a policeman before security forces killed the attackers. “There is no doubt that India is behind the attack,” Khan said in his address to parliament – a charge that India had denied a day earlier. Khna offered no evidence for his allegation, but he said there had been intelligence reports warning of attacks in…

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Saudi Arabia has reported 4,387 new cases and 50 deaths from coronavirus, taking the total cases to 190,823. The death toll raised to 1,649 after reporting the new deaths. Meanwhile, 3,648 patients fully recovered from the virus, bringing the total recoveries to 130,766. In line with recent trends, the majority of the new cases are in Al Hofuf (980), followed by Riyadh (342) and Al Mubarraz (323). https://twitter.com/media_ksa/status/1277946928878309380?s=20

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Six months after the World Health Organization learned of “viral pneumonia” cases that would become the COVID-19 pandemic, life in Wuhan, the city where it emerged, is returning to normal, although masks remain ubiquitous and emotional scars linger. A city of 11 million, Wuhan was locked down for two months starting in late January in a draconian measure that helped stamp out the virus at its initial epicentre. Hubei province and its capital city Wuhan accounted for most of China’s 83,531 new coronavirus cases and 4,634 deaths. “As time goes on, the epidemic situation is slowly getting better and the…

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