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NHS urges public to stay safe ahead of Ramadan

As Muslims begin to prepare for the month of Ramadan, the NHS has issued a reminder to those who observe the Islamic holy month to avoid social gatherings because of the risk of coronavirus. Ramadan will be mar...

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ITU-WHO release joint statement on unleashing information technology to defeat COVID-19

The World Health Organization, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) with support from UNICEF are set to work with telecommunication companies to text people directly on their mobile phones with vital...

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SearchInform on technology that will help businesses operate during lockdown

Sergey Ozhegov, CEO at SearchInform, a risk management solution provider represented in the MENA region, discusses the key issues companies are currently facing.  As many businesses are observing the 24-hour cu...

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Trend Micro reports GCC hit by 3,067 Covid-themed cyberattacks in Q1 2020

GCC countries have recorded 3,067 email, URL, and file threats related to the COVID-19 coronavirus in Q1 2020, according to new research from Trend Micro. As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread, the to...

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ServiceNow pledges no-layoffs in 2020 for its 11,000 plus global workforce

ServiceNow announced it is committing to protect the jobs of its 11,000-plus global workforce through 2020 despite the economic uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic. The company also expects to keep hiring for ...

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Emirates, Dubai Health using on-site COVID-19 tests for boarding passengers

Emirates in coordination with Dubai Health Authority, DHA, has introduced additional precautions. Passengers on the flight to Tunisia were all tested for COVID-19 before departing from Dubai. Emirates is the fi...

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UN: As famines of unimaginable scale loom, Security Council urged to ‘act fast’

Noting that the global spread of COVID-19 this year has sparked “the worst humanitarian crisis since World War Two”, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley pointed to deepening crise...

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UN: Startling disparities in digital learning emerge as COVID-19 spreads

They found that half of all students currently out of the classroom – or nearly 830 million learners globally — do not have access to a computer. Additionally, more than 40 per cent have no Internet acces...

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JAMA: The promise and peril of antibody testing for COVID-19

As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) raged around the globe in late March, hundreds of San Miguel County, Colorado, residents turned out for a blood test. Standing 6 feet apart outside a Telluride school gym,...

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UN agencies issue urgent call to fund the global emergency supply system to fight COVID-19

The heads of the United Nations’ major agencies have issued a graphic warning of the risk of coronavirus to the world’s most vulnerable countries after disclosing that international donors had pledged around a ...