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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 ...

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UN: Bringing Nollywood star power to Nigeria’s fight against COVID-19

A UN Resident Coordinator blog. Ahead of its arrival in Nigeria, a lot of people in the country had misconceptions about COVID-19. Many thought it was a disease only for advanced countries, or that black Africa...

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UN: Lifting lockdowns does not signal the end of COVID-19, warns WHO chief

“We want to re-emphasize that easing restrictions is not the end of the epidemic in any country,” agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday, during his regular briefing to journalists. Mr. Tedros s...

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UN: Phased process for lifting restrictions is key, WHO chief urges G20

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated the UN’s appreciation committing to further strengthen WHO’s mandate in coordinating the international fight, noting that “all of your countries have been affected, and you...