KUWAIT -- Kuwait Municipality adopted measures since outset of coronavirus crisis to minimize impacts on public wellbeing calling for provision of sanitizers, masks and gloves, and closing restaurants, coffee shops and any place that see gathering of people.
KUWAIT -- Moody's credit rating maintained Kuwait sovereign rating at (Aa2) but said it would assess country's ability to change way it was addressing budgets deficit amidst failure to issue a new public debt law, thus continuation of withdrawal from General Reserve Fund (GRF).
DUBAI -- Dubai Expo 2020 Steering Committee Monday called, following consultations with international partners, for postponing the major event for a year due to spread of coronavirus, or COVID-19.
PARIS -- The number of infections in France from coronavirus surged to 44,550 from 40,174 on Sunday and the death toll rose by 418 in the past 24 hours to 3,024 from 2,606 the previous day, health authorities stated.
PARIS -- UNESCO announced it was striving to enhance international scientific cooperation in the context of coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic which has infected more than 740,000 people worldwide and killed at least 35,000.
GENEVA -- Coronavirus pandemic is straining health systems in many countries, World Health Organization Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, but with solidarity, humility and assuming "the best of each other, we can - and will - overcome this together." (end) mb