Coronavirus: Is drinking cow urine any help?
Source: BBC India has had relatively few confirmed cases of coronavirus – but there’s been plenty of misleading advice on how to tackle it. BBC News has been fact-checking some […]
The Crisis in Italy
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred, saving one is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Italy calls in military to enforce coronavirus lockdown as 627 […]
Praise be to Allah for the Miracle of Our Immune System
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The total worldwide mortality due to Covid 19 is 16,500 at the time of the writing of this […]
Coronavirus: Good News After the Acute Phase
“It’s not possible to stop everybody getting it and it’s also not desirable because you want some immunity in the population” Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK’s chief scientific adviser, says […]
2 Generic Drugs Being Tested In U.S. In Race To Find Coronavirus Treatments
By Deena Beasley A 1,500-person trial began this week to see whether malaria treatment hydroxychloroquine can prevent or reduce the severity of COVID-19. (Reuters) — U.S. researchers, following the lead […]
Pakistan coronavirus camp: ‘No facilities, no humanity’
More than 1,000 remain there as thousands more are released into impoverished Balochistan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/pakistan-coronavirus-camp-no-facilities-no-humanity?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2wMIwRFYhjXpeZ623KP3QD0AXTovFD5LyjqZcwvVAj9-fYe6rOwmAwWM4#img-1 It was the smell that was the worst. In this dusty camp on Pakistan’s border with Iran, which at one stage held more than 6,000 people, the stench of sweat, rubbish and human excrement hung in […]
Syrian Children Freeze to Death. Bombs Rain Down. And ‘Nobody Cares.’
The Syrian government’s assault on a rebel-held province has created one of the worst humanitarian emergencies of a brutal nine-year war. Nearly a million Syrians have fled toward the border […]
A Global Challenge Needs a Global Response
Source: Spiegel Serbian President Aleksander Vučić threw a tantrum this week of a kind that should give us pause for thought. “European solidarity does not exist,” he raged. “That was […]
Mass panic worse than COVID-19
Mar 19,2020 -JORDAN TIMES – Shehab Al Makahleh The whole world is in a state of anxiety. The COVID-19 panic has been a result of the case of vagueness of the nature of the disease and how to contain it rather than how to cure patients who have fallen ill […]
NHS officials told me Muslim households are particularly vulnerable to coronavirus – it’s important to understand why
As the crisis develops, it’s likely that trauma will spread through communities whose shared culture is built around precisely the things the government has advised against Shadim Hussain @ShadimHussain 7 […]
The Middle East doesn’t deserve Trump and his troop ‘repositioning’ – at least have the guts to call it a retreat
The White House doesn’t have time to worry about Iraq and Afghanistan though. It has yet another war on its hands – against coronavirus Robert Fisk @indyvoices 6 hours […]
The First U.S. Company Has Announced an Upcoming Home COVID-19 Test
Source: Time By Alice Park Everlywell, a home testing company that offers dozens of lab tests to consumers, is adding a COVID-19 test beginning on March 23. Given the slow roll out of […]