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Most substantial effects in the transit and retail segments, with -60% and -53.2% reductions. Bahrain experienced the least reduction, followed by Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.   April 29th, 2020, Manama (Bahrain): New data published by search engine Google has revealed how the Coronavirus outbreak is impacting mobility across the GCC. The research...

We have all been hearing about the rise of a super bug – facts, myths, even conspiracy theories and what have you. Many scientists, medical practitioners and even technologists warned us about being ill prepared in dealing with an imminent threat of a new pandemic. And now it is here. When we first heard the...

They say unprecedented times come up every once in centuries, and so here we are, living in such a time now. Rising panic, chaos, gripping fear, crippling grief, and increased death tolls are synonymous with this period. It is a new norm in our daily lives. Worldwide, the scenario is similar because the causative agent...

As COVID19 continues to spread across the globe, and news and social media conversations on the current pandemic continue to rise, much of the information reported on has had to do with the rising number of confirmed cases, the number of deaths and preventive measures that countries have been implementing since the World Health Organization...

April 20th, 2020, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia): Women 20 (W20), the Women’s Engagement Group, have supported the idea proposed at the virtual meeting of Health Ministers from the G20 countries to create a new global health task force to tackle pandemics. The W20 urges Ministers to appoint women to a new task force, as an increase...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has forced our globalised world to a standstill. It has also led to school closures throughout the world. UNESCO estimates that these measures impact approximately 89 percent of the world’s student population, representing 1.54 billion children and youth enrolled in school or university, including nearly 743 million girls. The economic impacts...

April 19th, 2020, Sharjah (UAE): The Sharjah Child Friendly Office (SCFO) has launched ‘Parenting and Covid-19’ – an awareness campaign to support parents and families as they help their children deal with various new issues stemming from being restricted to home as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The campaign...