Category: International

By Dr Ahmed Mohiuddin Siddiqui The world is afflicted by the deadly Coronovirus. Many doctors, scientists and even some astrologers are seized of the matter.  In December 2019, there was a solar eclipse. India’s popular astro-gemologist, Dr. M. M. Raza, who is a regular feature on Urdu, Telugu and Kannada television channels in India, had then predicted  that the world will be confronted with calamities and a major disease.  This major disease turned out to be the pandemic Coronavirus…

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By Deutsche Welle As COVID-19 cuts a wide swathe of panic, the experts who beat Ebola in West Africa are looking on, knowingly. China and Italy are to the pandemic what Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were to the epidemic of 2014-2016. On March 9, Italy — the worst-hit by coronavirus outside of China — extended its lockdown to the entire country in a bid to curb the spread. That decision in the European country of 60 million resonated…

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World Health Organisation The African region completed a critical step on Saturday towards wild polio eradication when an independent commission to decide on the African Region’s wild poliovirus-free status concluded its final field visit to Nigeria. The independent commission conducted the critical verification analysis based on the documentation presented by the Nigerian Government. The Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for wild poliomyelitis eradication carried out similar field visits in all the 47 countries of the World Health Organization (WHO)…

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By Kate Mayberry & Virginia Pietromarchi, Aljazeera Iran has released approximately 70,000 prisoners due to the coronavirus outbreak, Iranian judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday, according to Mizan, the news site of the judiciary. The coronavirus outbreaks in China and South Korea appear to be slowing, as countries elsewhere in the world adopt drastic measures to try and stamp out the infection. There were 49 new fatalities in Iran, where some 194 people have now died from COVID-19….

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By Dr Ahmed Mohiuddin Siddiqui Her Royal Highness (HRH) Sayyida Basma Al Said of Oman has inaugurated a unique event – Children’s Health Promotion: ‘Save the smiles…handle with care’, which is organized by the Ministry of Health’s Higher Institute of Health Specialties (HIHS). The event was inaugurated at the Grand Mall in Muscat at the weekend in line with the Sultanate of Oman’s passion of always been in the forefront of children’s welfare.  The community outreach activity was attended…

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