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The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared corona virus a pandemic, signaling that health experts believe efforts should be focused less on containing the virus and more on stockpiling materials, getting hospitals ready to handle an influx of patients and enacting social distancing policies. “We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Ted ros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. The declaration came as the number of novel corona virus cases surpassed 120,000 worldwide. In the United States, where more than 30 people have been killed by the corona virus,…

Images of a foreign worker walking around halls of Saudi oil company Aramco dressed as a ‘human hand sanitiser dispenser’ amid coronavirus outbreak have surfaced online. The act was condemned as racist and exploitative by the people. Following the criticism, Aramco said, “The company has immediately stopped this act and has taken steps to prevent it from happening again.”

Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, will operate 12 flights from the 12th to the 15th of March to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in collaboration with the Saudi authorities. This is to facilitate the travel of passengers whose journeys were disrupted by the COVID-19 global outbreak. Only Saudi nationals will be allowed to travel on these Gulf Air flights from Bahrain to Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam; the return flights from these three airports in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will only be open to non-Saudi nationals. Passengers can book these flights through Gulf Air’s mobile app, gulfair.com, contact…

Three more persons have been tested positive for being infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours, Ministry of Health Spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad announced on Wednesday. Dr. Al-Sanad told a daily press briefing that one of the infected persons had travelled to Iran. There are five infected people in the intensive care unit, one in critical condition, and four stable. Total number of people who have been infected with the contagious disease stands at 70, he announced. Two of the patients have recorded, he added.

Saudi Aramco’s President and CEO, Amin H. Nasser, said the company has been directed by Ministry of Energy to raise the Company’s Maximum Sustained Capacity (MSC) from 12 MMBD to 13 MMBD. The Company is exerting its maximum efforts to implement this directive as soon as possible.

Princess Haifa bint Abdulaziz bin Mohammed bin Ayyaf Al Muqrin has presented her credentials as Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the Director of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay. During the meeting, they reviewed distinguished relationships between the two sides and the support that Saudi Arabia provides to the organization through its memberships in executive board of UNESCO and the World Heritage Committee. Princess Haifa stressed the importance of promoting the cooperation with UNESCO in all fields for the interest of Saudi Arabia in the international organization and with the other members…

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has made many achievements towards empowering women in the labor market, and the General Authority of Civil Aviation was one of the entities that enabled Saudi women to work in the civil aviation sector, this was at all levels and leaderships, and technical and administrative positions. This comes as a belief in the role of women in developing and strengthening the aviation sector, which has become a major role in all areas in line with the Vision 2030, and the authority took upon itself the empowerment of Saudi women in several fields, including the profession…

An unprecedented joint project has seen Ras Al Khaimah’s Department of Antiquities and Museums collaborate with two prominent US universities to study 4,000-year-old human bones unearthed at two ancient tombs in the emirate. The bones were found in Shimal – a prominent archaeological site dating back to the Umm Al Nar culture (2,600 to 2,000BC) – where archaeologists previously discovered evidence for prehistoric tombs, settlements and a medieval fortress. The research project aims to compile a more complete picture of the people who lived in the region during the Bronze Age. Christian Velde and Imke Moellering, Senior Researchers and Archaeologists…

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Waleed Khalifa Al Manea, confirmed that the first batch of citizens repatriated from Iran had undergone all protocol and procedures as per plan. Of 165 individuals, 77 positive cases were transferred to isolation and treatment centers, and the remaining 88 were taken to precautionary quarantine centers. Based on the evaluation of the results of the first stage of evacuation, and in light of the high count of positive cases amongst the citizens who were brought back from Iran, the Ministry of Health will activate additional precautionary measures within the existing plan.…

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