Coronavirus: UAE reports 1,813 Covid-19 cases, 1,652 recoveries, 2 deaths
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Over 43.1 million tests have been conducted across the country to date.
The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention on Sunday reported 1,813 cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus, along with 1,652 recoveries and 2 deaths.
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Over 43.1 million tests have been conducted across the country to date.
The total number of cases in UAE as on April 25 are 510,738, while total recoveries stand at 492,109. The death toll rises to 1,571.
Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that those who expose the public to the risk of Covid will be “severely punished.”
According to Arab News, the Kingdom’s Public Prosecution has announced that those who intentionally transmit Covid will face up to five years in prison and a fine of up to SR500,000 (Dh489,000). Expats will also be deported and prohibited from ever returning to the Kingdom.
India Covid crisis: Kuwait suspends all commercial flights
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Kuwaiti citizens, their first degree relatives and their domestic workers will be allowed to enter.
Kuwait s directorate general of civil aviation said early on Saturday in a tweet that it had suspended all direct commercial flights coming from India, effective April 24 and until further notice.
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All passengers arriving from India either directly or via another country will be banned from entering unless they have spent at least 14 days out of India, the statement said.
Kuwaiti citizens, their first degree relatives and their domestic workers will be allowed to enter. Cargo is unaffected.
US ends J&J Covid vaccine pause; shots to resume immediately
AFP, Reuters/Washington Filed on April 24, 2021 | Last updated on April 24, 2021 at 06.52 am
The government uncovered 15 vaccine recipients who developed a highly unusual kind of blood clot, out of nearly 8 million people given the J&J shot.
The United States can immediately resume use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, top health regulators said on Friday, ending a 10-day pause to investigate its link to extremely rare but potentially deadly blood clots.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration said the risks of experiencing the syndrome involving severe blood clots and low platelets as a result of the vaccine was very low. They found 15 cases in the 8 million shots given.
China to name first Mars rover after traditional fire god
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The rover’s title fits with the Chinese name for Mars Huo Xing, or fire star.
China’s first Mars rover will be named Zhurong after a traditional fire god, the government announced Saturday.
The rover is aboard the Tianwen-1 probe that arrived in Mars orbit on Feb. 24 and is due to land in May to look for evidence of life.
It is part of Chinese space plans that include launching a crewed orbital station and landing a human on the moon. China in 2019 became the first country to land a space probe on the little-explored far side of the moon and in December returned lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s.
Covid outbreak: New Zealand pauses travel bubble with Australia
AFP/Wellington Filed on April 24, 2021 | Last updated on April 24, 2021 at 07.02 am
The decision to lock down followed a positive Covid-19 case from hotel quarantine who was active in the community .
New Zealand on Friday paused its newly opened travel bubble with Australia, the government in Wellington said, after a Covid-19 outbreak in its larger neighbour. As set out in our Trans-Tasman bubble protocols, travel between New Zealand and Western Australia has been paused, pending further advice from the state government, a statement on the New Zealand government website said.
The decision came after Western Australia announced that the regions of Perth and Peel were entering a three-day lockdown, starting midnight Friday to Saturday, due to a traveler testing positive for the coronavirus.