From Foreign Waters

  Prior to a Tuesday briefing by its scientists to the World Health Organization , which is looking for a "deep debate" on the evolution of the virus, state media in China downplayed the severity of an increase in COVID-19 infections. The reliability of China's case and mortality data has come under increased scrutiny both domestically and internationally in the wake of the country's dramatic U-turn on COVID regulations on December 7. China's foreign ministry referred to some nations' restrictions on travel admission as "simply illogical" and claimed they "lacked scientific basis." Speaking to reporters in Beijing, spokeswoman for the foreign ministry Mao Ning said, "We are prepared to improve dialogue with the globe. "However, we will take equivalent steps in various circumstances in accordance with the concept of reciprocity and are vehemently opposed to attempts to manipulate the epidemic preventive and control measures...

  Covid-19 -related hospital admissions are increasing rapidly in the United States. These alarming signs pose a threat to seniors and older citizens in the country. Due to rising Covid-cases, older adults are dying. Older citizens might face risks during the winter season. Nursing home residents are also at great risk. An 81-year-old nursing home resident Bartley O’Hara reportedly of Washington reportedly said, “If you’re 21, you probably should worry about your granny. We’re all in this together.” Reportedly, Covid-19-related hospitalisations increased by more than 30% in two weeks. Most of the people admitted were older people and people with existing health problems. Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, expressed concern over the growing number of cases. Dr Eric Topol, the head of Scripps Research Translational Institute, reportedly said that health officials are doing a terrible job in protecting seniors. Reportedly, health official...

  China reported no new domestic coronavirus cases earlier this week and Beijing appears poised to bring to heel the pandemic's most serious resurgence in months. This is driven by the new Delta variant which will be now applied through mass testing and targeted lockdowns.   Over a thousand people have been infected across dozens of cities and the latest outbreak, which began in July at a Nanjing airport was seen as the most severe since COVID-19 that surfaced in the central city of Wuhan .   Communist authorities in China reacted with swift localised lockdowns, travel restrictions and mass testing of neighbourhoods with infections as part of their "zero cases" approach to the pandemic, which has virtually sealed off China's borders but allowed the economy to rebound.   Although National Health Commission data showed local infections returned to zero after a five-week battle. Chinese vaccines have nearly 60 per cent efficacy against Delta , with antibodie...

On Thursday, the coronavirus vaccination campaign in the United Arab Emirates crossed the ten million mark. This is a mark of dedication and determination of the UAE authorities in safeguarding the health interests of the community members. The UAE was one of the first countries to start administration of the vaccines and soon it went on to become the fastest nation to administer vaccines to its 50 percent of the entire population. This achievement is not hidden from anyone. The international forum has already taken a note of it and started offering benefits to UAE citizens because of the ongoing vaccination drive. In the wake of coronavirus pandemic, travel across the world came to an halt but as soon as it started again, there was a considerable surge in the infection rates. Britain was one of the first countries to take this seriously, especially after the mutant virus found its grounds in the UK. Hence, Britain along with many other nations, banned travel of citizens coming fro...

  I want to share something good about what I read today. It’s how the tension ends jobsearchers in the UAE will before long make some simpler memories, as associations the nation over look to by and by fill different places that were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, new exploration has appeared. Amidst the pandemic, This is something that should be celebrated for. The long wait is over for those who wants to comeback at work.   UAE never fails to assure it’s people as business and employing experiences, associations are adopting a future-prepared strategy and progressively enlisting ability that is represent considerable authority in digitalisation, hazard the executives, and money counseling. The medical care area is as yet signing in solid interest for new ability, while areas that were affected by the worldwide pandemic, like accommodation, flying, and recreation, are gradually recuperating.

Here’s something good that I want to share with what I read today.This straightforward call echoes through Dubai Mall by many volunteers with Dubai Police, to ensure customers are following prudent steps to control COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, from various identities addressed the emirate's call to hold hands with police officers in the fight against the pandemic by applying to Dubai Police chipping in stage.   In my observation, In excess of 2,400 volunteers in Dubai are drifting the roads, retail outlets and vacation spots with one objective and that is implementing the way of life of wearing veils and social removing. Intensive efforts are obvious and made by the public authority to ensure individuals not ridiculing the actions. Dubai Police and its volunteers assumed a vital part in raising the mindfulness and securing others

Countries across the world are currently fighting a war against a common enemy - the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. In this battle to save the citizens from a global health pandemic, international cooperation or multilateralism is certainly the best defence. An array of experts and analysts have identified the global health crisis as the most precarious threat to human life since World War 2. Therefore, they have argued that multilateralism and maintaining global commons are crucial to getting through this crisis. IMF's chief economist Gita Gopinath has also advocated the need for multilateral cooperation as vital to the health of the global economic recovery as the world faces the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. However, it has been witnessed that countries are individually implementing measures in response to the crisis, side-lining international cooperation. While the world governments were compelled to take draconian steps to contain the spread of the virus and...

In effort to handle impact due to coronavirus, the Presidential Staff Office (KSP) announced that it is currently offering public mental health consultations. This program will be launched to help people overcome the uncertain developments amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It considers as crucial as physical health services, especially in the midst of daily activities confined in the house due to large-scale social restrictions and anxiety-inducing news updates on the coronavirus. “People who are starting to be struck by anxiety must be guided by experts in the field. We are trying to help people’s situation from turning bad that would overshadow the coronavirus itself,” said KSP Moeldoko in a meeting with the national service system for mental health on Tuesday, April 21. There are three main strategic steps that the service offers, that is comprise of public education, initial consultation, and guidance. Moeldoko also rallied everyone to contribute to the...

The US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs intends to examine the circumstances surrounding the emergence of coronavirus, in particular the role of China and the World Health Organization (WHO) in the spread of infection.  This was announced by committee chairman Ron Johnson.  “ Where did it all begin?  Was it Transmitted from animal to human?  Was he distributed from a laboratory in China?  Perhaps there were best intentions to develop different methods, methods of treating coronavirus as a whole.  We need to know what role WHO could play in hiding this information, ”he said.  In addition, senators intend to find out why the United States was not sufficiently prepared for the possible danger, why the necessary medical equipment and drugs are manufactured abroad and there is a shortage of them in the country, as well as how the virus spread, and what was WHO's primary response to the outbreak.  The Senate believes...

Trump says “instincts” will shape his decision on reopening the economy. His health advisers say data is key. President Donald Trump and two of his top public health advisers have taken different stances on the issue of when — and how — the decision to ease social distancing will be made. Trump has advocated for aggressive goals in recent days, and said Saturday on Fox News that he plans to base his decision on when to adjust federal social distancing guidelines and ask businesses to reopen “on a lot of facts and a lot of instincts.” But two of his health advisers, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, argued for a decision based only on the former Sunday. In separate appearances on CNN’s State of the Union and ABC’s Meet the Press, both officials emphasized that their recommendations would be based solely on constantly-changing data, hesitated to make firm or swe...

Contact tracing is a technique to find out how many people have come in contact with an infected person and then figuring out the entire web of people those individuals interacted with. The tracing is done through smartphone's Bluetooth signals, which would identify with whom all the owner of the device recently met, level of proximity and duration of the meeting, if it was long enough to catch a contagion. As the tracing goes on, a warning message is sent to all those who came in contact with the infected person, along with a local health authority. The technique would help prevent the outbreak of the deadly diseases like COVID-19. Since the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus, many tech companies have been working on building various applications to conduct a similar tracking, but their major limitation came in terms of scale, features, software or region. On Friday, Technology giants Apply and Google announced their joint project to develop a contact tracing ap...

The pandemic outbreak of coronavirus has changed the course of life and made face-masks, deserted roads, temperature checks-points, police check-posts, house quarantine, work from home, and virtual meetings our new normal. While coughing and sneezing has become a taboo, social distancing has become a global cure against this contagion. Today, with failing health systems, crippling economies, blocked supplies and dying populations, the world needs to stand together more than ever. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 crisis is bringing out the worst of human element - whether its banning export of essential commodities at national level, or non-sharing of resources at state level or stockpiling greedily at an individual level.   Like most of the nations across world, India is also under complete lockdown and in such circumstances falling sick even with an influenza can be a very daunting experience. A few weeks ago due to a sinus attack I was feeling sick and went to the nearest chemi...

In the world, apparently, now they will divide the time into what happened before the coronavirus pandemic, and what happened during and after it.  In any case, the virus made adjustments to relations between people, countries, forcing them to reconsider their views on many problems or postpone their solution until better times.  Recently it became known that this is exactly what the European Union and the USA did.  EU High Representative Josep Borrel over the phone discussed with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to join forces to contain and overcome the coronavirus.  This was reported by the press service of the European External Action Service.  “The parties discussed the coronavirus pandemic.  High Representative Borrel emphasized the importance of cooperation and international solidarity.  In light of the global dimension of this challenge and relying on a significant transatlantic partnership, the EU and the US have the opportunity to ma...