World
May 1, 2021
NEW DELHI: India on Friday broke another global record for daily coronavirus infections, pushing worldwide cases past 150 million, as the first US emergency aid arrived as part of a major international effort to contain the pandemic.
The United States had good news at home with the vaccination campaign boasting a significant milestone of 100 million people now vaccinated. That’s 100 million Americans with a sense of relief and peace of mind, said White House pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients. The country has distributed 237 million doses, and 55 percent of adults have now received at least one dose.
But the pandemic has killed almost 3.2 million worldwide and continues to wreak devastation. The number of daily cases has more than doubled since mid-February, an AFP tally showed, in an explosion in infections blamed in part on a new Covid-19 variant but also on failure to follow virus restrictions.
Global journal names QU professor Sociologist of the Month
01 May 2021 - 9:07
The Peninsula
Doha: Qatar University’s (QU) Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences at College of Medicine, Dr. Suhad Daher-Nashif, has been named Sociologist of the Month for February 2021 by Current Sociology, the Journal of the International Sociology Association.
Dr. Suhad heads the Wellbeing Committee at the College and heads the Mental Health Research Group at QU-Health.
This selection came based on the new knowledge and the unique analytical contributions she made in her article “Colonial Management of death: to be or not to be dead in Palestine,” published in the journal Current Sociology in August 2020. While speaking about her published article, she said, “This research shed light on the issue of withholding and freezing the bodies of dead Palestinians that Israel practiced during ‘Al-Quds Uprising’ in 2015. The study presents how withholding and freezing the dead inf
KARACHI: The Federal Minister for Human Rights, Dr Shireen Mazari, emphasized on strengthening the Pakistan Navy in all aspects to pursue national interests in the Indian Ocean Region.Dr Shireen.