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Dubai-Chamber
COVID-19

Dubai Chamber finds e-retail companies succeeding in UAE and adjacent markets

A recent analysis by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry revealed that e-retail companies in the UAE have succeeded despite the challenges of high demand due to the spread of Covid-19 and the disruption ...

Ambulance
COVID-19

Anker Innovations donates 300 Covid-19 protection kits to Dubai Ambulance

Anker Innovations has shipped over 1.8 million FDA-certified masks to countries around the world, including the UAE. Anker Innovations complemented these masks with sanitising liquid and wipes in Anker Protecti...

Adnoc
COVID-19

ADNOC Oasis partners with Talabat for 30 min home delivery inside Abu Dhabi

ADNOC Distribution, the UAE’s largest fuel and convenience retailer, has launched a home delivery service to bring everyday essentials direct to customers from select ADNOC Oasis convenience stores in Abu Dhabi...

Palo-Alto
COVID-19

Unit 42 warns of malicious Covid-themed domains hosted in the cloud

Unit 42 has released new research on malicious Covid-19 themed domains hosted in the cloud that are targeting users with phishing and malware. Unit 42 researchers analysed 1.2 million newly registered domain na...

hospital-premises
COVID-19

WHO: People living longer, healthier lives but COVID-19 threatens to throw progress off track

All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant loss of life, disrupting livelihoods, and threatening the recent advances in health and progress towards global development goals highlighted in ...

who-academy
COVID-19

WHO launches the WHO Academy and WHO Info mobile apps to support COVID-19 response

WHO announces the launch of the WHO Academy app designed to support health workers during COVID-19, and the WHO Info app designed to inform the general public. Today, the WHO Academy, World Health Organization’...

Data-Suggest
COVID-19

Coronavirus grim reality: UN report projects world economy will shrink by 3.2%

In its World Economic Situation and Prospect (WESP) report update, launched on Wednesday, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) said that as of mid-2020, the gross domestic product (GDP) in de...

No-Smoking-Zone
COVID-19

WHO issues statement on tobacco use and COVID-19

Tobacco kills more than 8 million people globally every year. More than 7 million of these deaths are from direct tobacco use and around 1.2 million are due to non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. To...

Caring
COVID-19

WHO: COVID-19-related service disruptions could cause hundreds of thousands of extra deaths from HIV

A modelling group convened by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS has estimated that if efforts are not made to mitigate and overcome interruptions in health services and supplies during the COVID-19 pande...

Remember-Health-Heros
COVID-19

WHO highlights the importance of ‘Health Heroes’ on International Nurses Day

On the occasion of the International Day of the Nurse and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the World Health Organization (WHO) joins hundreds of partners worldwide to highlight the im...