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Oman has reported a slight increase in daily cases of coronavirus, which is 778, increasing the total cases in the sultanate to 14,316. Most of the newly admitted cases are from foreigners, which is 513 and the rest 265 from citizens, according to the Ministry of Health. The death toll in the sultanate stands at 67, said health minister Dr. Ahmad al-Saidi. Currently, 58 patients are in intensive care, and a total of 226 are being treated in health care facilities. Meanwhile, a total of 3,451 people have recovered from the virus. Also Read: Half of the government employees to return to work in…

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China reported one new coronavirus case and four new asymptomatic COVID-19 cases for June 3, the health commission said on Thursday. The National Health Commission said all five of the cases were imported, involving travellers from overseas. For June 2, China reported one confirmed case and 4 asymptomatic cases. China does not count asymptomatic patients, those who are infected with the coronavirus but do not exhibit symptoms, as confirmed cases. The total number of infections in China stands at 83,022. The death toll remained unchanged at 4,634. Also Read:  George Floyd tested positive for COVID-19, autospy says Iran says coronavirus…

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George Floyd, whose in-custody death in Minneapolis last week triggered an avalanche of protests over the mistreatment of black people by police, tested positive for coronavirus weeks before his death, an autopsy report released Wednesday shows. The 20-page document released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office says that an April 3 test on Floyd was positive for the virus’ genetic code, or RNA. Because that RNA can remain in someone’s body for weeks after the disease is gone, the autopsy says, a second positive test after his death likely meant that Floyd, 46, was asymptomatic from an earlier infection when he died…

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Iran’s president warned the public on Wednesday that restrictions may have to be reimposed to fight the coronavirus if the country is hit by a second wave of infections, after authorities announced the most new cases in a day since March. Iran has suffered the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, forcing it to impose a lockdown that damaged an economy already reeling from the imposition of U.S. sanctions. Restrictions have been gradually lifted since April but have been reimposed in some areas after localised outbreaks. The health ministry, cited by state media, reported 3,134 new infections in the…

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Bahrain has reported its second-highest daily cases, after reporting 241 new cases of coronavirus cases among 176 expatriate workers and 55 contacts of active cases and 10 are travel-related, taking today’s cases to 504. By today’s cases, the country surpassed 12,500 confirmed cases. Meanwhile, no additional recoveries from COVID-19 were reported, keeping today’s recoveries to 3. It is the lowest recoveries in the past 1 month. The newly registered cases bring the total cases to 12,815 of which 7,410 have recovered making over 58 percent of the confirmed cases to recover from the virus. Currently, there are 5,385 active cases. There are currently…

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UAE Government has announced that 50 percent of the employees in the headquarters of federal ministries, agencies and institutions will return to work from June 7. This decision comes a week after the return of 30% of the total number of employees in the federal authorities successfully. Excluding pregnant women, people of determination, those suffering from chronic diseases and immune deficiencies, as well as employees of the elderly class, and employees who have to take care for their children from grade 9 and below, and who have children in foster care or take care of at home those whose condition…

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UAE has announced 571 new cases, and 1 fatality from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the total cases in the country to 36,359, according to the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP). The new death takes the total fatalities to 270. 427 new recoveries were also announced, bringing the total recoveries to 19,153. This means over 50 percent of the confirmed cases have fully recovered from the virus. The new cases were found after conducting more than 41,000 coronavirus tests across the country, The ministry expressed its sincere condolences to the families of the deceased and wished a speedy recovery to…

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The World Health Organization’s Data Safety and Monitoring Committee has recommended for WHO to continue studying hydroxychloroquine as a potential COVID-19 treatment in its Solidarity Trial, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a media briefing in Geneva on Wednesday. Last week, WHO announced that it had temporarily paused the hydroxychloroquine arms of the trial due to concerns surrounding the drug’s safety. “This decision was taken as a precaution while the safety data were reviewed. The Data Safety and Monitoring Committee of the Solidarity Trial has been reviewing the data,” Tedros said on Wednesday. “On the basis of the available mortality data, the members of…

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Researchers are learning more about how COVID-19 affects children, and a new study finds that among a group of children and adolescents in New York who were hospitalized with the disease, about a fifth — 22% — had obesity. The study, published in the journal The Lancet on Wednesday, suggests that having obesity could put a child at an increased risk of getting severely ill with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.  “The significance of obesity as an independent risk factor for severity is now being increasingly described in adult studies of COVID-19, so it was interesting that many of the hospitalized patients in this…

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Capital Governor, Hisham bin Abdulrahman, has followed up on the distribution of 3,000 food baskets, within the “Your Food at Your Home” initiative launched by the Royal Humanitarian Foundation (RHF), in cooperation with the Interior Ministry. The initiative is in implementation of the directives of HM the King’s Representative for Humanitarian Work and Youth Affairs, National Security Advisor and RHF’s Board of Trustees Chairman, HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, to support Bahraini families and citizens who have been affected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The governor lauded HH Shaikh Nasser’s directives to launch the “Feena Khair” campaign to…

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