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 marked all ov...
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 health me...
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 curfew in Du...
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 topic is bei...
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 new jobs w...
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 first airlin...
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 crises, more fr...
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 access at home....
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, they wait...
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 quarter of...