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North Korea has decided to suspend military action plans against South Korea, the official KCNA news agency reported on Wednesday, as a report suggested North Korean troops were taking down loudspeakers recently reinstalled at the fortified border. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over a video conference meeting of the ruling party’s Central Military Commission on Tuesday, where members “took stock of the prevailing situation” before deciding to suspend the military plans, the report said, without elaborating. The committee also discussed documents outlining measures for “further bolstering the war deterrent of the country,” KCNA reported. Political tensions between the…

Bahrain has reported 655 new cases of coronavirus, among 379 expatriate workers, 264 new cases are contacts of active cases, and 12 are travel-related, after conducting over 8,300 additional COVID-19 tests on Tuesday. The death toll stands at 67, as 2 new deaths were reported in the kingdom. Meanwhile, 588 additional recoveries from COVID-19 were reported. Bahrain: School results to be announced electronically, certificates to be emailed The total cases have driven to 23,062 of which 17,450 have recovered, which means that over 75 percent of the confirmed cases have recovered from the virus. Currently, there are 5,545 active cases. Also, there are…

To implement the directives of the Chief of Public Security Presidency to promote precautionary measures against the spread of coronavirus, the Muharraq Governorate Police Directorate has held a multi-language awareness campaign at Amwaj Islands, Diyar Al Muharraq, tourism organisations and beaches. The campaign enhances awareness of foreign communities on the importance to avoid gatherings and safety measures. Bahrain records one more death from COVID-19; death toll at 66 The campaign will continue to back up national efforts against coronavirus. The kingdom has recorded 22,407 cases of COVID-19 and a total of 66 deaths, the least in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation…

European Union countries eager to revive their economies are prepared to bar entry to Americans because the United States has failed to control the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Times reported from Brussels on Tuesday, citing draft lists of acceptable travelers. The United States, which has the most coronavirus cases in the world and is experiencing a surge in new infections, would be in the same category as No.2 hotspot Brazil and Russia, according to the Times, citing the proposal. There was no immediate comment from the White House. “We’re going to be doing more testing, not less,” Dr. Anthony…

Bahrain has announced the death of a 57-year-old male citizen from coronavirus, the total death toll reached 67. It’s the second death recorded on Tuesday. The MOH expressed its condolences to the family of the deceased. Bahrain: School results to be announced electronically, certificates to be emailed The total cases have driven to 22,407 of which 16,419 have recovered, which means that over 73 percent of the confirmed cases have recovered from the virus. Currently, there are 5,478 active cases. Also, there are 148 COVID-19 cases receiving treatment, of which 36 are in a critical condition. So far the country has conducted 485,715…

The school results will be announced electronically, after their official approval, announced Dr. Majid bin Ali Al-Nuaimi, Education Minister. He said that the decision not to distribute paper results and certificates, in line with the Education Ministry’s keenness to implement the COVID-19 precautionary measures to combat the novel coronavirus, especially social distancing, as well as its efforts to transform its services into electronic ones. Bahrain International Airport implements new safety measures The results will be available on the educational portal, edunet.bh, for all school levels, adding that the third intermediate and secondary school students will be able to receive their…

China National Biotec Group (CNBG) has won approval to run a large-scale “Phase 3” clinical trial of its novel coronavirus vaccine candidate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the company said on Tuesday. China is seeking to trial potential vaccines overseas because of a lack of new patients at home. Over a dozen experimental vaccines are being trialled around the world. None of them has yet successfully completed a late-stage “Phase 3” test to determine efficacy in shielding healthy people from the virus, which has killed over 470,000 people around the world. Global coronavirus cases top 9 million as outbreak…

Turkmenistan scolded the United States embassy on Tuesday over a health alert which cast doubt on official reports of zero COVID-19 cases in the country. The Ashgabat government has repeatedly said the desert nation of 6 million is free of the novel coronavirus. It has imposed quarantine for those flying in from abroad, closed land border crossings and curbed travel between provinces. “While there are no official reports of positive COVID-19 cases in Turkmenistan, the U.S. Embassy has received reports of local citizens with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 undergoing COVID-19 testing and being placed in quarantine in infectious diseases hospitals…

Portugal reimposed restrictions in and around the capital Lisbon on Tuesday to check fresh coronavirus outbreaks, prompting fears the summer tourist season will take a major hit. Prime Minister Antonio Costa had said Monday some coronavirus curbs would be reimposed in the Lisbon even if the country of 10 million people has limited casualties to some 1,500 deaths and some 40,000 cases to date. The new measures came after official data showed 9,221 new COVID-19 cases detected, notably in the capital and the wider Lisbon region, between May 21 and June 21. Among new measures being introduced Tuesday in a…

Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Robert Redfield, both members of the White House coronavirus task force, said they are committed to increasing — not slowing down — testing for coronavirus. The comments come as President Trump has come under fire for saying that he told staff to slow down testing for the disease to hide the discovery of more cases. While members of his own administration have said the comments were in jest, Trump insisted today he was not kidding. Asked about the state of testing, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he has not been told…