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TOKYO: As face coverings become the norm amid the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese start-up Donut Robotics has developed an Internet-connected “smart mask” that can transmit messages and translate from Japanese into eight other languages.

The white plastic “c-mask” fits over standard face masks and connects via Bluetooth to a smartphone and tablet application that can transcribe speech into text messages, make calls

or amplify the mask wearer’s voice.

“We worked hard for years to develop a robot and we have used that technology to create a product that responds to how the coronavirus has

reshaped society”, said Taisuke Ono, the Chief Executive of Donut Robotics. Donut Robotics’ engineers came up with the idea for the mask as they searched for a product to help the company survive the pandemic. When the coronavirus struck, it had just secured a contract to supply robot guides and translators to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, a product that faces an uncertain future after the collapse of air travel. — Reuters

SALALAH: The coronavi-rus has taken the shine off khareef even as the sea-son started on June 21 and the mountains have already turned green due to recent spells of rains in most parts of Dhofar.

With the beginning of June, everyone would start talking about the khareef season, as most of the peo-ple have to give finishing touches to their prospec-

tive businesses, which the season promises with suc-cess generally.

Everyone is missing the charm of the season while living amid the fear of the pandemic that calls for utmost care, safety and all possible hygiene. But they are happy over the deci-sion to lockdown the Dhofar Governorate to keep them safe from the disease.

“This is an unprecedent-ed situation for which no one was prepared. This is in the interest of the peo-ple and the country to fol-low the pandemic norms and stay safe. We can have many more festivals if we are safe and healthy”, said Mirbat resident Abdullah Ba Omar.

Every season Abdullah does some good business, but this season he is left with no other option but to stay quiet. TURN TO P2

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FOR COVID-19

FIGHTGENEVA: The World Health Organization said on Friday that a global initiative to speed up the development and production of COVID-19 tests, vaccines and treatments will require more than $30 billion over the next year.

Providing details of the so-called ACT accelerator, launched in April and aimed at pooling international resources to conquer the pandemic, WHO said “the costed plans presented today call for $31.3 billion in funding”. So far, $3.4 billion of that had been pledged, it said, pointing out that an additional $27.9 billion was needed over the next 12 months, including nearly $14 billion to cover immediate needs. The announcement came ahead of a major pledging event in Brussels in support of the ACT accelerator, set to take place on Saturday. — AFP

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MUSCAT: The coronavirus with its disastrous rage, people are now learning to reorient their life in a post-COVID-19 safety net.

If the entire world could be, slowly but steadily, convinced about the need to keep social distancing a united policy to combat the pandemic, experts suggest that people can make further changes to their lifestyle to overcome the coronavirus effect.

“A sense of discipline and new social habits need to be cultivated to cope with the post-coronavirus world to live fit both physically and psychologically”, suggests Dr Hamed al Sinawi, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital.

For months, children have been home from school, employees have been working from home and as such people have been novices to a new mode of life amid the outbreak.

The pandemic will continue to haunt people for years to come. But the mind can adapt to changes that occur frequently in its culture and habits, he said.

“This is the time to reflect upon our current state of affairs and consider where we are going and how we might do better. It’s an opportunity to make systemic improvements”, he said.

People need to be more mindful about their money and avoid unnecessary spending that could lead to more financial and mental stress.

In the middle of last May, Dr Hamed pointed out, the World Health Organization announced that the world would have to coexist with COVID-19. Following this, various

countries around the world began to develop procedures to ensure safe returns of businesses to reduce the risk of spreading the infection.

“Such actions were essential as the economic and psychological impact of the lockdown started to influence people’s mental health and well-being”, he said. Similarly, he said, to live a financially stable life in the post-coronavirus period, any extravagant spending like on weddings, which is very common in the Arab countries, should be avoided.

Educational institutions should focus on enabling their students and faculty to use more efficient tools to maximize the educational benefits and motivate students to study remotely.

“We must also avoid reading news that advocates for conspiracy theories and spread fake news that causes confusion and puts people at risk, finally we should stay positive and pray to God to keep us safe”, he said.

Despite efforts made by companies to reassure employees that it’s safe to resume work, some people are still worried about getting infected if they go back to their workplace.

This is understandable, especially after spending nearly three months, listening and reading instructions, urging them to stay at home.

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MUSCAT: Nine people died due to coronavirus in the Sultanate on Friday as it recorded 1,132 new cases of COVID-19 including 639 Omanis and 493 residents, which brings the total caseload to 36,034. The number of people who died in Oman due to coronavirus has now crossed 150-mark to reach 153. Of the total deaths reported, 96 of them are residents and 57 Omanis.

Of the total 153 deaths, Muscat topped the list with 110, followed by South Batinah 14 and North Batinah 11.

According to MoH, a

total of 4,013 people were tested in the last 24 hours. MoH also reported that 962 patients recovered from COVID-19 during the past 24 hours, taking the total recoveries from the disease to 19,482 in Oman. A total of 51 people were admitted to the hospital on Thursday, taking the number to 426, including 105 in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

The Wilayat of Seeb accounted for 24 per cent of the total COVID-19 cases in the Sultanate. Most cases of infection in Seeb are in the Rusayl Industrial Estate, factories and big companies.

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Last season Salalah recorded 766,772 visitors and the visi-tors’ spending reached RO 78 million, up 1.4 per cent com-pared to the season of 2018.

“More visitors mean more business for us. I have some furnished apartments, but all of them are lying vacant. During the season I would have been busy talking to customers or doing some necessary reno-

vations”, Abdullah said.Despite many other develop-

ments, khareef still holds the key from the perspective of direct involvement of local peo-ple in all sorts of businesses ranging from handicrafts to real estate, restaurants, agri-culture, art and culture, even laundries and barbershops.

Khareef keeps the residents of Dhofar engaged because every Dhofari has some con-nection with Salalah, which makes the festive mood and the most productive business season for local people. For entrepreneurs, this is the best launch season for their ideas and products to get wider pub-licity.

People are hoping for the good times, as they are yet to settle with the new normal of face masks, gloves and even virtual meetings. They are keeping their fingers crossed and still pinning hopes on the season.

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LIFE

ONE night, a stargaz-ing couple saw a falling star which inspired the

Italian art duo to create a remake of a worldwide famous Italian song.

This was the best mo-ment for Lucia Oliva to launch a musical video during lockdown from their studio in Qantab.

She recently completed a unique concept of art while the song is a re-flection of her passion for writing poems. This touching musical project gathered love from dif-ferent corners of the world.

Volare means ‘In the blue-painted blue (sky)’, a song recorded by famous Italian singer-songwriter the late Domenico Mo-dugno.

The song was spread-ing a message of faith, hope, peace and brother-hood to lift souls during this difficult pandemic period.

In a short time, this multi-artist multi location ensemble came together as friends from the four corners of the world and happily agreed to sing to-gether from as far as US to the Sultanate includ-ing Japan, India, the UAE, Jordan and Italy.

Luca, her husband, took care of editing.

Lucia says it turned out to be a wonderful expe-rience of brotherhood that brought together musicians and singers of different cultures and beliefs who did not know each other.

“Moreover, top profes-sionals happily cooperat-ed without rivalry among them or lack of respect for amateurs,” she adds.

This musical video ex-perience occurred while Lucia was creating In

front of the open window, a new piece that evokes a poetic vision of hope.

The story of the song was introduced men-tioning another artwork Lucia was creating dur-ing the same time as this one too was connected to the origin of the song and conveys the same mes-sage of hope.

The music was played by celebrated maestro Francesco Gardella, Indo fusion violinist-cum-vo-calist Sunita Bhuyan and Andrea Vulpani at the piano, acclaimed tenor Davide Piaggio, Ameri-can pop-star Joe Sopala and the fairytale mythol-ogy Japanese singer Eko Tumi played duets and trios with enthusiast amateurs.

Representing the Sul-tanate was famous fit-ness trainer and hand-stander Fahad al Abri who quickly learned to manage the tough Italian verses.

All the artistes felt it was an incredible chal-lenge and an enriching experience for all.

Sunita from Mumbai says that music heals, unites and is universal.

“We have to keep our

craft going amidst all the suffering and pain the world is going through,” she adds.

“I am very sick and my voice disappeared... I fear I got COVID-19 and wait-ing for the test,” wrote Eko from Tokyo. The test was negative and in one week her angelic voice came back sweeter than before.

Pop song writer Joe from the US, who was at the same time work-ing on his new song Be a light, recollects: “It was an exciting experience recording the new ver-sion of Volare while I was finishing the last details of my new video. So dif-ferent in style but so simi-lar in the message they conveyed.”

“And no one can imag-ine the strength of one of the artists who had to go through his father’s death precisely in those days. He informed us only when the project was uploaded,” confide Luca and Lucia.

While some artists had to repeat performances because “due to home recordings, many pets and outdoor animals in-terfered and looked like they wanted to join the show but unfortunately were not mentioned in the score!”

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd-n0o_Rwjo&feature=youtu.be

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TRENDS

GAME OF THRONES FOR A READING

CHALLENGE

Capricorns are usually organ-ised. But if you take a look at my bookshelf,

you’ll doubt that I’m a Capricorn. Chaotic book shelves make my mom gasp every time her eyes fall on it and wonder loudly when I’m planning to organise it, to get the usual answer: “Well! Will get to it once I have some free time!.”

And what more free time I could ask for than being under lockdown and temporary home-bound? With a sigh of despair – anticipating the hard work facing me - I climbed the chair and started clearing the upper shelf.

I was amazed by the number of books that had been pushed to the back without me notic-ing. I had a collection

bought between 1999 and 2017 and never read. I decided to posi-tion them in front, and take all the new books and stack them behind. This was my mission for 2020: finish the old books before starting the new ones! One of the books that I came across was a bulky vol-ume of A Game of Thrones, that my broth-er gifted me ages back and eventually got sucked into the black hole I call my bookshelf.

I managed to finish two

books of the old stack before Ramadhan, when my brother walked into my room wondering about the Game of Thrones book he’d given me long ago. I replied half-heartedly that it’s on my to-read list and he smiled: “How about we read it for Ramadhan? We haven’t had a read-ing competition in a while!”

Well, what we call a reading competition isn’t really one as I always end up winning despite my brother’s effort to hinder me by misplacing the book mark (he still doesn’t realise that I memorise the page number I’m on (cunning Capricorn!). I took the bulky book out and divid-ed the 674 pages in the month of Ramadhan. Then I messaged my close friends announc-

ing that I’m taking the first step into the Game of Thrones realm that I’ve resisted for too long. My Spanish friend was the most excited as he’s been nagging me for years to watch the series.

After days of reading the book, I got the hang of it and started enjoying it despite being a fantasy, something I rarely read. I finished the book in three weeks. My brother promised to get me the rest of the books for future reading competi-tions (P.S: he’s not done reading yet. Never com-pete with your big wise sister!

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MUSCAT: More companies in the Sultanate are insisting on electronic transactions as quarantine meas-ures and COVID-19 force people to stay at home to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Experts say e-commerce will gath-er more strength as consumers switch to online shopping and e-services.

“We have a golden opportunity to transform and develop e-commerce and benefit from technology,” said Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed al Futaisi, Minister of Transport, after the pre-vious meeting of the Supreme Committee.

Experts said the lockdown has forced companies to adopt the online medium as a channel to inter-

act and consequently offer services to the customers.

“Customers have been buying online during COVID19. As a conse-quence, yes, I see the prospectus of e-commerce as promising,” said Tariq Hilal al Barwani, Founder of Knowledge Oman.

Haitham Hilal al Hajri, Cyber Security Researcher, said that what makes or breaks an e-store is the promotions, inventory selection, security of payments and fast relia-ble delivery options.

“Oman has benefited from the pan-demic by speeding the e-transforma-tion process. Consumers today have many buying choices based on brand, price and locations within fin-gertips,” adds Al Hajri.

“It’s no doubt that COVID-19 has accelerated digitisation in all forms and has brought much awareness and eagerness among the public towards e-commerce adoption,” said Dr Baby Sam Samuel, Business Mentor and Consultant.

He feels that this trend will contin-ue in future where businesses offer-ing user friendly, COVID-19-safe e-commerce will find eager consum-ers and steady growth.

“However for this sector to really take off, a complete ecosystem needs to be developed which includes related businesses like logistics, delivery etc. Challenges such as cost-effectiveness and regu-latory concerns need to be

Several studies have shown that social and emotional development underpin children’s academic learning, growth, and success. Discipline is one such character strength that determines the future success of a person.

People who are disciplined bring order and plan because of their ability to create systematic ways to get things done. People with the strength of discipline can get a lot

accomplished.Discipline brings stability

and structure into a person’s life. It teaches a person to be responsible and respectful. Discipline helps to train a person’s mind and character, building a sense of self-control and the practice of obedience.

When children learn discipline, we are teaching them a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy. Self-disciplined children can fight their self-doubt, their temptation and learn to focus on long term rewards instead of short-term comfort or gain. Discipline, just like other character strengths, must be cultivated.

How do we help our children to become more disciplined?

When parents follow self-discipline, children will learn to do the same. Modelling is the easiest way of teaching discipline to children. If

children see us procrastinating or choosing to watch TV instead of finishing our work they will pick up the same habits. Having a structured routine to the day helps children to know their time limits. A consistent bedtime, waking up time and mealtimes are the primary discipline of routine that can be taught to children from a young age. It helps children know what they are supposed to be doing and are less likely to get derailed by other activities.

A good routine should also spell out time for homework, chores, and play. Keep the routine simple, and with practice, children will learn to implement it without your assistance.

Have rules and guidelines that should be followed at home and explain the reason behind those rules so that children understand rules

serve a purpose.Give consequences,

and sometimes natural consequences can teach life’s greatest lessons. But losing some privileges can also be the consequences that help children become more self-disciplined. However, this should not be a source of stress in our relationships, but rather consequences should facilitate positive behaviour and should be done from a place of respect and love.

To teach discipline is the hardest and is a process that takes a long time to learn. Use age-appropriate discipline strategies and take only one step at a time.

Praise good behaviour. This will boost their confidence, and they are more likely to repeat the same again.

The author is an educational psychologist. Email: [email protected]

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SOCIETY

Armed with a face mask, notebook and pen, Everlyne Akinyi Omondi sets out each

morning from her one-room home in Nairobi’s informal settlement of Kawangware to do a job few others would contemplate in a pandemic.

As cases of the new coro-navirus climb and Ken-yans are told to stay home and avoid human contact, 38-year-old Omondi moves house to house through Ka-wangware’s maze of narrow lanes.

Standing at the doorways of the cramped, corrugated houses, she talks about COVID-19, shows residents

how to wash hands or don a mask, patiently answering their questions.

“I know there are risks of contracting the virus, but I don’t feel so scared. I have made a pledge to keep my community safe,” said Omon-di, turning to reprimand a group of children crowded around her for not maintain-ing social distancing rules.

“You see how small and close together the places where we live are. We have to make sure people under-stand how they can stop co-rona from spreading. Here, if one person gets it, everyone can.”

The mother of three is not a doctor, nurse or medic of any sort - just one of tens of thousands of ordinary Af-rican women who, without fanfare, battle the virus in their communities.

Poorly paid or not at all, these unsung armies of mostly female community health workers have for years doled out advice and health services to families living in remote villages and urban slums who lack for-mal support.

Recruited and trained by government and charities - they are found from Kenya to Tanzania, Ethiopia to Ma-lawi, Liberia to South Africa - the women go door to door, dispensing advice on every-thing from family planning to immunisations.

Now, as transmission of the new coronavirus spreads, women like Omondi are es-sential foot soldiers in the war on COVID-19.

Charities such as Catholic Relief Services, which is sup-porting coronavirus training for about 5,000 community

health volunteers in Kenya, say this workforce is key.

“Community health volun-teers are not given the rec-ognition they deserve, but they are important frontline workers. They have a wide range of knowledge and ex-perience from dealing with cholera outbreaks to ma-laria prevention,” said Moses Orinda, CRS’s senior project officer in Kenya.

“For COVID-19, they have the ability to contact trace, provide support to home-based patients and conduct essential prevention and control activities,” Orinda said. The COVID-19 virus has infected close to 10 million people and killed almost half a million worldwide, accord-ing to Johns Hopkins Univer-sity.

— Thomson Reuters Foundation

AFRICA’S UNSUNG ARMY OF WOMEN WAGE WAR ON COVID-19

A community health volunteer talks to the residents about the dangers of COVID-19 in Nairobi, Kenya. — Reuters

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WORLD

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s adminis-tration petitioned the US Supreme Court to invalidate the Obamacare law intro-duced by his predecessor that added millions to the healthcare safety net, seek-ing to scrap coverage dur-ing the novel coronavirus crisis.

Solicitor General Noel Francisco, in a filing late on Thursday, argued for the administration that the Af-fordable Care Act (ACA) - one of former Democratic president Barack Obama’s signature achievements - became invalid after the previous, Republican-led Congress axed parts of it.

“No further analysis is nec-essary; once the individual mandate and the guaran-teed-issue and community-rating provisions are invali-dated, the remainder of the ACA cannot survive,” Fran-cisco wrote, adding that law-makers in 2017 did not show that they intended for the ACA to continue “in the ab-sence of these three integral provisions.”

The move is sure to ignite further political controversy and elevate healthcare as a major election issue. Trump is seeking re-election in No-vember against Obama’s vice-president, Joe Biden, who has vowed to protect health insurance coverage for Americans under the law.

The Trump administra-tion’s filing came the same day the United States set a

new record for a one-day increase in cases of the fatal and highly contagious coro-navirus. The disease has killed thousands of Ameri-cans and forced millions to lose their jobs, including any employer-based health ben-efits they may have had.

Democrats, who had asked the top court separately to declare that ACA did not vio-late the US Constitution and have proposed to shore up

the law’s provisions, blasted the move as cruel and im-moral, particularly amid the outbreak.

“President Trump and the Republicans’ campaign to rip away the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act in the middle of the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty,” Democratic House of Rep-resentatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. — Reuters

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ASKS APEX COURT TO AXE OBAMACARE

TRUMP SEEKS END TO AFFORDABLE CARE ACT A CRUEL MOVE DURING PANDEMIC: DEMOCRATS

LONDON: A British teen-ager who threw a six-year-old French boy from a 10th-floor viewing plat-form at the Tate Modern art gallery in London with the intention of kill-ing him was jailed for 15 years on Friday and told he might never be freed.

Jonty Bravery, who was 17 at the time of the inci-dent and told police he carried it out because he wanted to be on the television news, pleaded guilty to one count of at-

tempted murder last De-cember.

The unnamed victim, who was visiting Britain with his family, fell 100 feet after he was target-ed by Bravery and was found on a fifth-floor roof. His mother was heard by witnesses scream-ing: “Where’s my son? Where’s my son?”

The boy survived but suffered a bleed to his brain and several frac-tured bones. Judge Mau-ra McGowan said the

boy’s life would never be the same again and his parents had been forced to give up their lives to care for him.

“You had intended to kill someone that day. You almost killed that 6-year-old boy,” she told Bravery.

Bravery, now 18, who was arrested shortly afterwards, told police he had planned to hurt someone at the museum to be on television. He had researched how to kill people on the Inter-net the previous day and before the incident he had asked a member of the public the location of a tall building. — Reuters

Teenager who threw French boy from London art gallery roof jailed for 15 years

Jonty Bravery posing for his custody photograph in London, on December 6, 2019. — AFP

A general view of the United States

Supreme Court in Washington.

— Reuters


WORLD

As lockdown eases, illegal raves take off across Europe

LONDON/LISBON: From the housing blocks of London to the beaches of Portugal, thousands of young people are holding illegal raves and parties across Europe, yearning for contact and bursting with energy after the solitude of the corona-virus lockdown.

While many revellers are simply seeking some fun after months of bans on festivals, clubbing and par-ties, such mass gatherings have added to fears that a second deadly wave of infections could sweep across Europe.

Police have sometimes struggled to disperse the illegal parties with clashes

in London where crowds attacked officers with bot-tles and set upon patrol cars on Wednesday, leaving 22 police injured.

“We’ve seen large num-bers of people completely flouting the health regula-tions, seeming not to care at all about their own or their families’ health, want-ing to have large parties,” London police chief

Cressida Dick said.“It’s hot, some people have

drunk far too much, some people are just angry and aggressive and some are just plain violent.”

Police in the British capi-tal dispersed several par-ties overnight. They are also investigating rape, drug offences and stabbings at illegal raves in other cities.

As the exuberance of

greater freedom explodes into the European summer after the gloom of the lock-down, parties have also popped up in Germany and France and on the sands of Portugal’s Atlantic beaches.

Thousands gathered in the squares of Portugal’s cities of Porto and Braga over the weekend to party in the summer heat.

— Reuters

WASHINGTON: The United States and Europe battled a resurgence of coro-navirus cases as warnings mounted worldwide on Friday over reopening lockdowns too soon. A major Australian city also faced a danger-ous uptick in infections, leading to national steps against toilet paper hoarding, while the pandemic also continues to pummel Latin America.

More than 480,000 people world-wide have died from COVID-19 since it emerged in China late last year and cases are expected to reach 10 mil-lion across the globe within the next week. In the United States, after hit-ting a two-month plateau, the rate of new cases is now soaring in southern and western states, with the con-firmed infection rate nearing levels last seen in April.

Texas was among the most aggres-

sive states in reopening in early June but has now been forced to halt its phased reopening.

“The last thing we want to do as a state is go backwards and close down businesses,” said Republican Governor Greg Abbott, an ally of President Donald Trump, who has faced sharp criticism for his handling of the crisis.

“This temporary pause will help our state corral the spread.”

The United States recorded 37,667 cases and 692 deaths in 24 hours, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, with nearly 122,000 lives lost overall — by far the highest confirmed toll in the world.

US health officials now believe based on antibody surveys that some 24 million people may have already been infected — 10 times higher than the

officially recorded figure of around 2.4 million.

In Latin America, Brazil, the hard-est-hit country in the region, had close to 55,000 deaths and 1.2 million infec-tions, while Mexico on Thursday sur-passed 25,000 fatalities. In Australia, supermarkets imposed purchase limits on toilet paper across the coun-try on Friday following panic buying by people rattled over a surge in coro-navirus cases in Melbourne, the coun-try’s second-biggest city.

“Stop it, it’s ridiculous,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told his com-patriots. He insisted the country’s so far successful containment was not threatened by the 30 new cases con-firmed overnight in Melbourne, the 10th straight day of double-digit rises in new cases in the city and surround-ing Victoria state. — AFP

Fresh virus cases surge in US

CONCERN THAT

GATHERINGS COULD SPARK

SECOND CORONAVIRUS

WAVES

Beachgoers enjoy the sunshine on Bournemouth beach in England on Thursday. — AFP


ANALYSIS

Understanding health problems caused by coronavirus

Scientists are only starting to grasp the vast array of health prob-

lems caused by the novel coronavirus, some of which may have lingering effects on patients and health sys-tems for years to come, according to doctors and infectious disease experts.

Besides the respirato-ry issues that leave patients gasping for breath, the virus that causes COVID-19 attacks many organ systems, in some cases causing catastrophic damage.

“We thought this was only a respiratory virus. Turns out, it goes after the pancreas. It goes after the heart. It goes after the liver, the brain, the kidney and other organs. We didn’t appre-ciate that in the begin-ning,” said Dr Eric Topol, a cardiologist and direc-tor of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, California.

In addition to respira-tory distress, patients with COVID-19 can expe-rience blood clotting disorders that can lead to strokes, and extreme inflammation that attacks multiple organ systems. The virus can also cause neurological complications that range from headache, dizziness and loss of

taste or smell to sei-zures and confusion.

And recovery can be slow, incomplete and costly, with a huge impact on quality of life.

The broad and diverse manifestations of COVID-19 are somewhat unique, said Dr Sadiya Khan, a cardiologist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.

With influenza, people with underlying heart conditions are also at higher risk of complica-tions, Khan said. What is surprising about this

virus is the extent of the complications occur-ring outside the lungs.

Khan believes there will be a huge healthcare expenditure and bur-den for individuals who have survived COVID-19.

Patients who were in the intensive care unit or on a ventilator for weeks will need to spend extensive time in rehab to regain mobility and strength. — Reuters

If Israel goes ahead with plans in areas of the West Bank, many locals believe the initial Palestinian reaction will likely be sub-dued and limited to spo-

radic peaceful protests.But that may not remain the

case for long. Should annexa-tion impact the daily lives of Palestinians, popular protests may instead take a violent turn, according to Palestinians who live in the area.

“The annexation will not pass,” said an ardent supporter of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, who gave his name only as Jamal and preferred not to have his pic-ture taken.

That is a sentence often repeated by the Fatah move-ment with regard to the immi-nent Israeli plan, which could include annexation of the occu-pied Jordan Valley, the north-ern Dead Sea and settlements throughout the West Bank, ter-ritory Palestinians want for a future state.

“If Israel proceeds with the annexation, the situation is going to get really ugly,” said Jamal, a 22-year-old university student from Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority (PA). “We will make life impossible for the Israelis.”

But Waad Hamdan, 33, from the village of Dura al Qaraa, and Khalil Fawadleh, 35, from the village of Aboud, both near Ramallah, do not foresee their day-to-day reality changing — they feel as if they are already living on annexed territory.

“I live in an area that is under Israeli control. I do not see how things will be different on the ground after Israel officially announces the annexation,” said Hamdan.

Fawadleh concurs: “The checkpoints at the entrances to the villages and towns, the daily Israeli army incursions, the mushrooming settlements eve-rywhere, the control over water, construction, expansion, move-ment and everything else are proof that Israel has been in total control of this land ever since the occupation started in 1967,” he said. — dpa

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Privilege cards for Omani manpower-friendly private firms

MUSCAT: Eager to enhance the pri-vate sector’s employment appeal to Omanis, the Sultanate’s authorities are promoting a new initiative to rec-ognise and reward private sector companies that provide a welcoming and positive workplace for young nationals.

The centrepiece of the initiative is a special, incentives-driven card that will be issued to corporates that per-form well on a scorecard attesting to their commitment to attracting and retaining Omanis. Dubbed the ‘Work Environment Measurement Card’, it will entitle card-holders to a number of privileges and benefits.

“The initiative aims to provide an ideal work environment for the nation-al workforce in the private sector, in order to attract young national com-petencies, by launching a card that includes standards stimulating the corporate work environment, through which corporates that meet the stand-ards receive incentives and facilita-tions from the Ministry of Manpower and other relevant authorities”, said the Implementation Support & Follow-up Unit (ISFU) of the Diwan of Royal Court. ISFU, a high-powered task force, is spearheading the delivery of the ini-tiative – part of the latest portfolio of 130-plus projects that seek to acceler-ate Oman’s economic diversification.

Collaborating with ISFU in the roll-out of the initiative are the Ministry of Manpower (MoMP), Ministry of Tourism (MoT), General Federation of Oman Trade Union (GFOTU), Muscat Municipality, Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) and Public Authority for Small and Medium Enterprise Development (Riyada).

Around 400 corporate firms have been issued the prestigious ‘Work Environment Measurement Card’ since it was unveiled in early 2019. But a hoped-for wider uptake failed to gain momentum within the corporate sec-tor. In response, ISFU and other stake-holders reviewed the incentives offered as part of the initiative and sought feedback from the private sec-

tor as well. The incentives have since been enhanced, according to ISFU.

Going forward, the launch team plans to press ahead with efforts to encour-age more private sector firms to pro-vide a “stimulating work environment” for Omanis. “It also aims to launch a special standards package for SMEs, in coordination with the Public Authority of Small and Medium

Enterprise Development (Riyada)”, said ISFU, adding that card-holders will be honoured as well.

Significantly, the privilege card project is one of 10 different initiatives on ISFU’s dashboard for delivery as part of its effort to align manpower and labour practices with the goal of enhancing Oman’s economic diversi-fication.

Notable among the initiatives currently in various stages of imple-mentation include the following: Enhancement of Labour Disputes System; Development of a Sustainable System for Establishing, Monitoring and Implementing Occupational Standards; Labour Solution Package for Construction Sector; Labour Solution Packages to assist Economic Sectors in Achieving Omanisation; National Leadership Development Programme to support Omanisation in Middle and Upper Management Positions (Etimad); and Part-Time and Temporary Work and Enable Flexible Movement of Labour.

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BUSINESS

INCENTIVES-DRIVEN INITIATIVE:

400 corporates so far conferred with prestigious

‘Work Environment Measurement Card’ in

recognition of the commitment to attracting

and enrolling young Omanis

Crude oil’s rally to the highest levels since early March has paused with the technical out-

look beginning to look more challenging. The attention has for now turned from OPEC+ and successful pro-duction cuts to concerns that a renewed spike in COVID-19 cases may slow the process towards a further recovery in global demand.

Crude oil’s latest run up to the highest levels since March 8 - when Saudi Arabia initiated its short-lived price war - has paused. Instead of focusing on the OPEC+ suc-cessful efforts to support the market through lower sup-ply, the market has instead, for now, turned its attention to US stockpiles report and concerns that a renewed spike in COVID-19 may slow the process towards a fur-ther recovery in global de-mand. This ahead of the peak season for gasoline demand during the annual holiday season.

Since the April low WTI crude oil has been trading within a rising wedge for-mation, currently between $42.20/b and $37.70/b. The re-sistance level also ties in with the price required to close the gap that opened up following the March 8 price war decla-ration. On Tuesday the price temporarily retraced more than 50 per cent of the Janu-ary to April sell-off but failed to close above. At this stage we view the short-term risk as being skewed towards a

high volume breakout of the lower trend line than a con-tinuation.

Several media reports from the past couple of days have also begun to sow some doubt about how much long-er the rising demand-led ral-ly narrative can be sustained. A renewed surge in COVID-19 cases in the US, an out of con-trol situation in other coun-tries combined with the re-cent scare in Beijing all very clearly highlighting that the invisible enemy has not yet been defeated. And while gov-ernments will use lockdowns measures as a very last re-sort due to the destructive impact on already reeling economies, these develop-ments may still impact how we collectively behave in the public space.

Reuters report that China is likely to see a slowdown in the record pace of crude oil imports witnessed during the second quarter. Strong demand from independent refineries are likely to slow on a combination of stor-age facilities filling up with cheap crude oil, the recent rally in Brent crude oil back above $40/b and not least the prospect for fuel demand, following the latest outbreak in Beijing, being exposed to a second wave of lockdowns.

If confirmed the slowdown in demand is going to occur just as the current OPEC+ deal to curb production ex-pires. A prolonged period of keeping production low are likely to challenge to the indi-vidual resolve of members of the group, some of which are desperate to increase pro-duction and revenues.

In the US meanwhile the WSJ reports that refiner-ies are struggling to make ends meet due to weak mar-gins. The so-called 321 crack spread which reflects the profitability of refining three barrels of WTI crude oil into two barrels of gasoline and one barrel of ULSD (ultra-low-sulfur diesel) currently trades around $13/b, almost one-third below the seasonal average price. Weak profit-ability due to weak demand could drive lower output in order to avoid a further spike in fuel stocks.

The consequence being lower demand for crude oil and with that rising stock lev-els, not least considering the prospect of US oil producers beginning to increase pro-duction. A development that can only be solved either by lower crude oil prices and/or stronger demand. The lat-ter potentially not happening anytime soon with the pan-

demic refusing to loosen its grip. The article finishes with this warning from Energy Aspect: “If summer fuel de-mand falls short of expecta-tions, refiners will sell crude they bought in anticipation of a recovery”.

Finally the impact of a slow-er-than-expected pickup in demand is also being felt in In-dia. Just like China, refineries have taken advantage of low prices and during April filled their tanks. While a pickup in fuel demand is expected over the coming months the pan-demic’s grip on the economy cannot be ignored and may slow that process and with that demand from one of the world’s top importers.

While crude oil is expected climb and reach a new record around 540 million barrels, the market will also be looking for a rebound in production. This following last week’s big 0.6 million barrel/day drop, that was partly due to the passage of Tropical Storm Cristobal, which forced a lot of producers to shut output in the Gulf of Mexico.

Staying on the refinery sub-ject the market, apart from looking for a drop in gasoline and distillate stocks will also be expecting another pickup in demand for both fuels. Last week the implied demand (4-week average) for gasoline and distillates trailed the five-year average by 1.5 million barrels/day and 0.7 million barrels/day respectively.

[The writer is Head of Commodity Strategy at

Saxo Bank]

BUSINESS


OLE HANSEN

Crude oil headwinds on virus and technicals

Crude oil headwinds on virus and technicals


ECB’s Lagarde says ‘probably passed lowest point’ of economic crisisFRANKFURT: The worst of the economic crisis unleashed by the coronavi-rus pandemic is likely over, European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde said on Friday, warning however that the new nor-mal will look different from what was before.

“We probably have passed the lowest point. I say that with some trepidation because of course there could a severe second wave if we learn anything from the Spanish Flu”, she told an online conference.

“We are not going to return to the status quo. It’s going to be different. The recov-ery is going to be incom-plete and transformation-al”.

The hardest hit industries — such as airlines, hospital-ity and entertainment — will emerge from the crisis “in a different shape”, while new sectors may arise.

The recovery would also be at different paces.

“It’s going to be a conti-nent at a time”, warned Lagarde.

The International Monetary Fund predicted

in its latest forecasts on Wednesday that the world economy would contract by 4.9 per cent in 2020, before growing 5.4 per cent next year.

By region, the contraction is most dramatic for the eurozone, which is set to see the economy shrink 10.2 per cent.

China in contrast, could yet post growth of 1.0 per cent for 2020, according to the IMF.

Former IMF chief Lagarde

said she believed central banks have been playing their part to mitigate the damage.

“The central banks I think have responded massively, diligently to the challenge and we will continue to do so”, she said.

“Call it whatever it takes, call it using all the levers... The mandate is the same — our mandate is price stabil-ity”.

But while central banks have in the past complained

about being asked to do the heavy lifting while govern-ments keep their coffers tightly shut, Lagarde noted that this time “what is very special is that for once, monetary policies and fis-cal polices worked hand in hand”.

In Europe, Germany has taken the lead in digging deep into its treasury, unleashing over a trillion euros worth of aid to shore up the economy.

— AFP

LONDON: British shopping centre giant Intu, whose properties have been rav-aged by the coronavirus lockdown, warned on Friday that it was likely to collapse after talks failed to restructure its finances.

Intu, which owns giant shopping malls including MetroCentre and the Trafford Centre in north-ern England and Lakeside in the southeast, had been seeking to progress talks with creditors ahead of a midnight deadline.

Shopping centres were forced to close for three months after the govern-ment imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 23 in a bid to halt the COVID-19 out-break. Restrictions

began to be eased this month.

In a statement on Friday, Intu announced that “insuf-ficient alignment and agreement has been achieved” with its creditors.

“The board is therefore considering the position of Intu with a view to protect-ing the interests of its stake-holders”, it added.

“This is likely to involve the appointment of admin-

istrators. A further announcement will be made as soon as possible”.

Administration is the process whereby a trou-bled company calls upon independent financial help in a bid to restructure the business, remain opera-tional and to try to mini-mise job losses.

Intu had warned on Tuesday that some of its shopping centres “have reduced rent collections as a result of COVID-19”.

KPMG has been put on stand-by in case the group enters administration, while there was also “a risk that centres may have to close for a period”, Intu stated earlier in the week.

— AFP

BUSINESS

UK shopping mall giant Intu says facing collapse

We are not going to return to the status quo. It’s going to be different. The recovery is going to be incomplete and transformational Jerry Colangelo, Hall of Fame spokesman

CHRISTINE LAGARDE, ECB CHIEF

BUSINESS

MUMBAI: The pain of shrinking remittances will be shared. From tech engineers in Silicon Valley to construction crews in the Arabian Gulf to domestic helpers in Lebanon, the global economic slump and accompanying job losses could fall by a record sum, lopping a fifth off some $700 bil-lion sent home annually by such workers, according to the Pew Research Center. That money is a lifeline for poorer nations, which will be hit first. Richer countries should expect to suffer too.

Such flows can seem one-way. Almost 80 per cent of remittanc-es go to low- and middle-income countries, per the World Bank, providing critical support espe-cially when recipient economies are struggling. The payments are often a steadier source of vital foreign currency than overseas portfolio or direct investments. The pandemic has all parts of the globe hurting at once, how-ever.

Frontier markets are on the front lines. Remittances account for over one-third of GDP in Haiti, South Sudan and Tonga. It’s a worrying 10 per cent for the Philippines. India and China receive the biggest amounts from workers overseas, but inflows account for 3 per cent or less of GDP. The two Asian giants

face their own daunting prob-lems with unemployed domestic migrants, however, as earnings from the big cities support fami-lies in the villages. Lower remit-tances will weigh on consump-tion and related tax revenue.

Existing trends also stand to accelerate as countries become more protectionist. The rate of growth for remittances was already slowing. Since the end of the global financial crisis, annual volumes have contracted or grown in mostly single digits compared to double-digit growth in the eight years prior to 2009.

Richer nations could be delay-ing their own recoveries. The Trump administration’s decision to suspend the H-1B visa pro-gramme for the rest of the year, for example, may leave Amazon, Tata Consultancy Services and others facing a shortage of high-skilled workers. Other places that send jobless migrants home will have to start the tedious process of bringing them back and training them again later, and it increases the risk poor countries will need financial sup-port from multilateral organisa-tions largely funded by wealthier countries. That gives them both humanitarian and selfish rea-sons to consider policies care-fully.

— Reuters

AMSTERDAM: The Dutch government said on Friday it would provide 3.4 bil-lion euros ($3.8 billion) in support to the Dutch arm of Air France-KLM, capping months of wrangling with France over the role each country should play in a coronavirus rescue deal.

The move comes after Paris announced a 7 billion euro bailout package for Air France in April and as governments look to shore up an industry hammered by a travel slump expected to last for years.

As part of the package, the Dutch gov-ernment will appoint an observer to KLM’s board to ensure taxpayer money is spent only on the Dutch subsidiary, but won’t have control of the business.

It will also force painful reforms, including pay and spending cuts, a freeze on bonuses and dividends, as well as ambitious environmental tar-gets that were sought by the Dutch par-liament as a condition for aid.

“This package is needed to make sure that KLM and Air France can continue to fulfil the important role that they have in our economy”, Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra told a news confer-ence.

Reuters first reported details of the aid package on Thursday. Sources said The Hague had sought a seat on KLM’s board, but was rebuffed by Paris. The countries’ leaders met over the matter this month. — Reuters

Pieter Elbers, President and Chief Executive Officer of KLM, poses before a news conference in Paris, France. — Reuters

Dutch airline KLM to get 3.4 bn euro bailout package

A man holds Philippine peso bills at a remittance centre in Manila. — Reuters


REMITTANCE WOES WILL TRANSFER FROM POOR TO RICH

As part of the package, the Dutch government will appoint an observer to KLM’s board to

ensure taxpayer money is spent only on the Dutch

subsidiary, but won’t have control of the business


SPORTS

MELBOURNE: Australia and New Zealand were handed the right to host the 2023 Women’s World Cup soccer tournament by a comfortable margin after a vote by the FIFA Council on Thursday.

Their joint proposal beat a rival bid from Colombia to host the tournament which is being expanded to 32 teams.

Japan, who had also put forward a bid to stage the event, pulled out on Mon-day after they were ranked below the joint bid by world governing body Fifa’s evalu-ation report.

The report highlighted the infrastructure and organi-sational advantages of the Australia/New Zealand bid which Fifa believed would make for a commercially successful tournament.

“The Fifa Women’s World Cup 2023 in Australia and New Zealand will be ground-breaking in many ways,” said a delighted Chris Nikou, President of Football Federation Aus-tralia (FFA).

“Not only will it be the first ever co-confederation hosted Fifa World Cup and the first ever Fifa Women’s World Cup in the Asia-Pa-

cific region, but we will un-lock the huge potential for growth in women’s football in the Asia-Pacific region.”

There had been media re-ports that the vote could be tight with UEFA’s European representatives backing Colombia but in the end the margin of victory was wide with Australia and New Zealand gaining 22 votes to Colombia’s 13.

INFANTINO SUPPORTThe 2019 World Cup in

France was hailed as a wa-tershed for global interest in the women’s game and Fifa President Gianni Infan-tino personally drove the campaign to increase the field to 32 teams from 24 for 2023.

Infantino had also ex-pressed a preference for the successful Australia/New Zealand bid during the Fifa Council meeting.

Colombia, who were hop-ing to become the first South American nation to

hold the tournament, were disappointed at the decision but vowed to keep fighting to host a major Fifa event.

“We wanted the seat of the Women’s World Cup 2023 for Colombia and we gave everything to get it,” the country’s sports Ministry wrote on twitter.

“We will work more strongly to bring another World Cup to Colombia. With the efforts of all, wom-en’s soccer (here)...will keep growing.” — Reuters

AUSTRALIA, NZ NAMED HOSTS FOR 2023 WOMEN’S WC


SPORTS

CONNECTICUT, US: Canadian Mackenzie Hughes fired an error free 10-under 60 to take the first-round lead at the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut, on Thursday, putting himself three shots clear of three players including world number one Rory McIlroy.

Playing the back nine first at the TPC River Highlands, Hughes was in blister-ing form as he strung together a run of five straight birdies from the 14th on his out-ward nine and picked up four more after the turn. He had a long look at a magical 59 but left a 41-foot birdie putt short at his last.

“I’ve shot 61 twice in competition, once at Sea Island and once at a mini-Tour event,” Hughes told reporters. “Both times there was an outside chance the last few holes to shoot 59. “Kind of similar deal to today where I kind of needed to bird-

ie the last few holes.”Also a back nine

starter, McIlroy got off to a flying start by roll-ing in an 11-foot putt for an eagle on the par five 13th and then followed up with bird-ies at 14 and 15 to quickly get to four-under. The Northern Irishman’s only mis-cue was a bogey at 16 but he was error free the rest of the way, pil-ing on four more bird-ies after the turn for a seven-under 63.

American Xander Schauffele and Norway’s Viktor Hovland, who were part of the afternoon wave, finished tied with McIlroy after both carded seven-under 63s.

Lurking one shot further back is a pack led by Spain’s Sergio Garcia and Phil Mickelson, who recently celebrated his 50th birthday, with both also enjoying error free starts.

Joining the two major winners at six-under are Americans Tyler Duncan and Michael Thompson plus South Korea’s Noh Seung-yul and South African Louis Oosthuizen.

Golfers appeared to be taking heed and paying closer atten-tion to COVID-19 safety protocols after PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan issued a stern warning on Wednesday following the withdrawal of sev-eral players.

Major champions Brooks Koepka and Graeme McDowell pulled out of the event after their caddies tested positive for COVID-19 while Cameron Champ with-drew on Tuesday after testing positive.

— Reuters

HUGHES GOES ON

BIRDIE BLITZ

TO GRAB LEAD AT

TRAVELERS

I’VE SHOT 61 TWICE

IN COMPETITION,

ONCE AT SEA ISLAND

AND ONCE AT

A MINI-TOUR EVENT.

BOTH TIMES THERE

WAS AN OUTSIDE

CHANCE THE LAST

FEW HOLES TO

SHOOT 59.”

MACKENZIE HUGHES, CANADA

SPORTS

LONDON: Thirty years of hurt came to an end for Liverpool when they were confirmed as Premier League champions on Thursday courtesy of second-placed Manchester City’s 2-1 defeat by Chelsea.

The result at Stamford Bridge means Liverpool have an unassailable 23-point lead over City with seven games left.

Liverpool were last champions of England when they won the old First Division title in 1989-90 after which a decline in fortunes saw Manchester United and Arsenal, then Chelsea and Manchester City seize power.

Inspirational manager Juergen Klopp has rekin-dled the Anfield flame though and delivered the

club’s 19th top-flight title, one behind arch-rivals United’s record of 20, after finishing runners-up to City in a thrilling race last season.

As the Chelsea game moved into stoppage time at an empty stadium in London, 350km away out-side Anfield Liverpool fans began lighting red flares as the celebrations began in earnest.

Also watching from afar was an emotional Klopp.

“I have no words, it’s unbelievable and much more than I ever thought would be possible,” he told Sky Sports after being congratulated by Liverpool great Kenny Dalglish, manager of the 1989-90 title winners.

“It’s easy to motivate this team because of our great history. It’s pure joy

for me to coach them.”

HAPPY DAYSIn the last 12 months Liverpool have won the Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and World Club Cup, but regaining their status as top dogs in England, something that was almost a given in the 1970s and 1980s, was the priority.

“Juergen has been fan-tastic and epitomises eve-rything Liverpool Football Club stands for,” Dalglish, told BT Sport.

“And it’s not just a one-off, last year they came within a point of it and this year they have only lost once. “Onwards and upwards, I think they have a lot more happy days to look forward to now.” — Reuters

LIVERPOOL WIN PREMIER LEAGUE WITH SEVEN GAMES TO SPARE


I HAVE NO WORDS, IT’S UNBELIEVABLE AND MUCH MORE THAN I EVER THOUGHT WOULD BE POSSIBLE. IT’S EASY TO MOTIVATE THIS TEAM BECAUSE OF OUR GREAT HISTORY. IT’S PURE JOY FOR ME TO COACH THEM

Juergen Klopp, LIVERPOOL MANAGER

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