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Bahrain’s Civil Aviation Affairs has added Vietnam to its travel Red List, effective 1 June 2021. Entry of travellers from Red List countries is limited to citizens and valid residency visa holders, who must present evidence with a QR code of a negative PCR test conducted within 48 hours of departure. They will be further tested upon arrival and on day 10 of their stay. Permitted travellers from Red List countries must quarantine at their or a family member’s residence, or at a designated quarantine facility for 10 days. All COVID-19 travel restrictions, including the Red List, are subject to…

The 46-year old Chinese Zhang Hong has scaled the tallest peak in the world from the Nepal side, becoming the first blind man in Asia and the third in the world to climb Mount Everest. “No matter if you’re disabled or normal, whether you have lost your eyesight or you have no legs or hands, it doesn’t matter as long as you have a strong mind, you can always complete a thing that other people say you can’t,” Zhang told Reuters. https://youtu.be/e7AeIufSrQg Zhang completed the 8,849 metre-high Himalayan feat on May 24 along with three high altitude guides, and returned…

Bahrain’s Education Minister, Dr. Majid bin Ali Al-Nuaimi, has revealed that the curriculum sector has developed many textbooks for all educational levels. These include textbooks on robotics skills, Raspberry Pi and digital electronics for secondary students, in addition to an introduction to robotics, robots, creative programming and digital electronics for intermediate students. The books are part of the ongoing preparations for the new academic year, in light of the exceptional circumstances created by the novel Coronavirus. Dr. Al-Nuami highlighted the tremendous efforts exerted by the Education Ministry to deliver educational services to the students, citing the uploading of a total…

UK PM Boris Johnson marries fiancee in secret ceremony British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, the Sun and Mail on Sunday newspapers reported. A spokeswoman for Johnson’s Downing Street office declined to comment on the reports. The Sun said guests were invited at the last minute to the central London ceremony, and said even senior members of Johnson’s office were unaware of the wedding plans. Weddings in England are currently limited to 30 people due to COVID-19 restrictions. The Catholic cathedral was suddenly locked down at 1:30…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, the Sun and Mail on Sunday newspapers reported. A spokeswoman for Johnson’s Downing Street office declined to comment on the reports. The Sun said guests were invited at the last minute to the central London ceremony, and said even senior members of Johnson’s office were unaware of the wedding plans. https://youtu.be/m7WSN-zaYTg Weddings in England are currently limited to 30 people due to COVID-19 restrictions. Johnson, 56, and Symonds, 33, have been living together in Downing Street since Johnson became prime minister…

Abu Dhabi Department of Health (DoH) has announced that it will provide free booster jabs of the Sinopharm vaccine against COVID-19. The booster dose will be administered to all those recipients who had received their second dose of the vaccine a minimum of six months ago. As part of its continuous efforts to protect public health, DoH will offer the free booster doses by walk-in at any of the more-than-100 vaccination centres across Abu Dhabi. https://twitter.com/admediaoffice/status/1398549767198752770?s=20

Based on the Civil Service Bureau (CSB)’s instructions 4/2021 regarding the mandatory periodic Rapid Antigen Tests for government employees at workplaces, the Information Affairs Ministry held a training workshop for the period testing team. 20 volunteers and the Ministry’s employees attended the workshop, presented by the international expert, Hassan Al-Nuaimi. The workshop reviewed mechanisms to deal with rapid tests, in addition to the best practices in organising medical testing campaigns and ensuring the safety of employees. It also included practical training for the team on how to take samples and analyse them in a safe and fast manner to ensure…

Chief of the Ministries and Public Entities’ Prosecution said that the Public Prosecution had completed its investigations into the dolphin catching case at Bahrain’s territorial waters, and referred four defendants to trial. Case documents reveal that the Public Prosecution had received a notification from the Coast Guard Command, indicating that some suspects had caught dolphins at Bahrain’s territorial waters in order to hand them over to a dolphin-show facility, in agreement with the latter’s manager. The Coast Guard Command also indicated that it had monitored the handover of one dolphin to the facility’s staff, and that it had found three…

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978, according to the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation, which said the remains were found with the help of a ground penetrating radar specialist. https://youtu.be/4XNQJswDQuE “We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify,” Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir said in a statement.…

Authorities in Vietnam have detected a new coronavirus variant that is a combination of the Indian and UK COVID-19 variants and spreads quickly by air, the health minister said on Saturday. After successfully containing the virus for most of last year, Vietnam is grappling with a rise in infections since late April that accounts for more than half of the total 6,856 registered cases. So far, there have been 47 deaths. “Vietnam has uncovered a new COVID-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the UK,” Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said, describing it as a hybrid of…