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 […]
Europe Has Been the Greatest Disappointment in This Crisis
Source: Spiegel When the news began spreading on Sunday that the French luxury firm LVMH was converting its entire perfume production to the manufacture of disinfectant gel, the details of the matter may have been uncertain, but one thing was clear: It was a moment that would go down in […]
Video: Is Deception Always the Best Strategy: Ask President Trump?
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Corona Fear’s Cure: Chanting from the Bible and the Quran The self isolation for 70 years and older may last […]
‘Somewhere Like Home’: Uighur Kids Find A Haven At Boarding School In Turkey
Source: NPR Ten-year-old Nurzat climbs out of his bunk bed, tiptoes across the room that he shares with three other boys and opens his locker. It holds his most prized […]
Saudi Arabia suspends prayers at mosques over coronavirus
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that mosques would no longer accept worshippers for the customary five daily prayers and the weekly Friday prayer, in exceptional measures intended […]
Iran’s supreme leader to pardon 10,000 prisoners, including political ones
Source: MSN By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will pardon 10,000 prisoners including political ones in honour of the Iranian new year on Friday, […]
‘Carnage’: Millions face financial ruin as coronavirus infects U.S. economy
Business & Economy ‘Carnage’: Millions face financial ruin as coronavirus infects U.S. economy By James Varney – The Washington Times – Wednesday, March 18, 2020 For Hayden Peeler, a […]
For the first time since the outbreak began late last year, China has reported no new local infections
Source: CNN Mainland China on Thursday reported no new locally transmitted coronavirus cases for the first time since the the pandemic began, marking a major turning point in the global […]
A Muslim candidate responded to a man’s Islamophobic tweet by donating to his medical fund – and spurred a friendship
Source: CNN Qasim Rashid has spent much of his life fighting for and defending human rights, first as a lawyer, then as a spokesman for the the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. Oscar “Oz” Dillon held anti-Muslim views and often targeted his ire at Rashid, who’s running for Congress in Dillon’s […]
GHANA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission suspends Jumah and other congregational prayers over COVID-19
By Afedzi Abdullah, GNA Cape Coast, March 18, GNA – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission Ghana has indefinitely suspended Friday prayers (Jumah) and other congregational prayers as a precautionary measure […]
A Crucial Idea Darwin Had on Evolution Was Just Confirmed, 140 Years After His Death
Source: MSN Published in 1859, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species made a number of bold claims about the nature of evolution – including the suggestion that an animal […]
Church of England suspends all services over coronavirus
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood The Church of England has suspended all services until further notice, saying it must become “a different sort of church in these coming months”. […]