Religion can help tackle Covid, meeting told
byTIM WYATT 19 JUNE 2020 Faith leaders and faith-based aid agencies met with government officials last week JASON BRYANT A verger at Wells Cathedral, Keiron Rowley, lights a candle, on Sunday, […]
Robots will help us manage Covid-19, but not in the way we think
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) developed the CoWriter system whereby children improve their writing skills by showing a robot how to write letters. EPFL Brad Nelson, […]
Coronavirus is ‘not under control and is accelerating’, warns WHO
COVID-19 is not under control in most of the world and is actually getting worse, according to the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO). © Reuters The virus is showing […]
Burial traditions clash with coronavirus safety in Indonesia
By NINIEK KARMINI and VICTORIA MILKO, Associated Press 2 hrs ago © Provided by Associated Press A worker walks among graves at a special cemetery for people who presumably died of […]
Dumpster diving, blackouts and suicides. Lebanon’s woes laid bare as crisis deepens
By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Updated 1336 GMT (2136 HKT) July 8, 20 Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)A young man with a swagger approaches a dumpster. An employee from a nearby restaurant has […]
Malaysians dig deep, honing green fingers during shutdown
Ms Ivy Sam of organic farm Homegrown Farms says many people asked for farming workshops during the Movement Control Order which started on March 18.PHOTO: HOMEGROWN FARMS PUBLISHED JUL 7, […]
Coronavirus costs Africa travel, tourism almost $55 bn
Africa Business News of Friday, 3 July 2020 Source: Reuters African countries have lost almost $55 billion in travel and tourism revenues in three months due to the coronavirus pandemic, […]
Epsom acute care doctor’s battle against Covid-19
Source: Sutton and Corydon Guardian By Orlando Jenkinson Dr Imran Malik, acute care consultant at Epsom Hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic. With tens of thousands of deaths in the UK alone, […]
‘People will die within months’: Lebanon heads for famine as pandemic accelerates hunger
Hit by its worst economic crisis in modern history, there are fears the country is about to repeat the 1915-18 famine by Abbie Cheesman 30.6.2020 Mohamad barely looks surprised when […]
FDA says a coronavirus vaccine would have to be at least 50% effective to be approved
Source: USA Today A coronavirus vaccine would need to be at least 50% more effective than a placebo in preventing or at least decreasing the severity of COVID-19 in order […]
Reviving a post-capitalist breath
AHMED DANYAL ARIF ECONOMICS 29th June 2020 Ahmed Danyal Arif, UK Despite many prior warnings, a number of developed countries were clearly unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic. This monumental failure of […]
As a Muslim doctor, here’s why it’s a blessing in disguise that the Hajj pilgrimage has been cancelled
Voices After almost a decade participating in camps for 50,000 to 60,000 pilgrims during the busiest times, it pains me to say this year’s downscaling is the right decision […]
Travel in a war zone. Travel in a pandemic zone.
By Refiq Tschannen, Associate Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In my past professional life I used to commute from Amman / Jordan to Baghdad / Iraq during the war […]
What can Avicenna teach us in time of Coronavirus?
Source: Al Jazeera By Hamid Dabashi, who is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Every day at 7pm in New York, we come […]
US scientists seek answers to Bali’s Covid-19 secret
US Centers for Disease Control plans to study Indonesian tourist island’s mysterious success in eluding the pandemic By JOHN MCBETHJUNE 19, 2020 A Balinese Hindu wears a face mask while presenting offerings during the Penebusan Gering Lara Malaradan ceremony amid the spread of coronavirus outbreak at Dalem Kahyangan Temple in Denpasar, […]
Muslims, Jews have higher COVID death rate, UK figures indicate
LONDON (Reuters) – The death rate from COVID-19 in England and Wales is higher among people who identify as Muslims, Jews, Hindus or Sikh than Christians or those with […]
UK Muslim leaders urge mosques to remain closed until congregational prayers can resume
Source: Arab News Muslim leaders have urged the government to release clear guidelines to protect the safety of their congregations LONDON: Muslim leaders in England have called for mosques to […]
Isis and al-Qaeda set to profit from Covid-19 as lockdowns and aid shortages makes Sahel communities ‘an easy target’
Violent instability in the Sahel means millions need international aid – but lockdowns are stifling the efforts of aid workers. And an economic standstill creates opportunities for jihadis, as Borzou […]
History: Fast and lethal, the Black Death spread more than a mile per day
Roughly one out of three people died as this medieval plague quickly travelled along European trade routes, devastating communities along the way. Friday, 24 April 2020 By Antoni Virgili […]
One in 10 Covid-19 patients with diabetes die within a week, study finds
(CNN) One in 10 coronavirus patients with diabetes died within the first seven days of hospitalization, and one in five needed a ventilator to breathe, according to a new study […]
