We Will Be Living with the Coronavirus Pandemic Well Into 2021: Experts
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 Dhul-Qa’da 2, 1441 AH Doha today: 280 - 410 COVER STORY Likelihood We will be living with the coronavirus pandemic well into 2021: Experts. P4-5 BOLLYWOOD BACK PAGE Actors ‘sceptical’ to shoot as Shopping is back, but Bollywood reopens shop. not as we know it. Page 14 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, June 23, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT SERIES TO BINGE WATCH ON AMAZON PRIME PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.13am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.46am Zuhr (noon) 11.37am Asr (afternoon) 3pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.29pm Isha (night) 7.59pm USEFUL NUMBERS Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 The Last Tycoon SYNOPSIS: The series centres on Hollywood’s first Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 DIRECTION: Billy Ray wunderkind studio executive in the 1930s, Monroe Stahr, and Qatar General Electricity and CAST: Matt Bomer, Kelsey Grammer, Lily Collins the power struggle between him and his mentor. 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Now he’s Here, classical art forms and haiku poetry rub shoulders Community Editor on a one-man mission to immerse himself in its society, with Godzilla, Cosplay, and some of the strangest Kamran Rehmat places, and people in a bid to unlock its extraordinary obsessions on the planet, while stunning, peaceful vistas secrets. By taking on an epic journey across all of Japan of gently falling cherry blossom give way to neon lights, e-mail: [email protected] from north to south, James is determined to gain a genuine J-Pop, and frenetic urban environments. Fifteen years Telephone: 44466405 understanding into why this unique land and its people since he first visited as a baffled tourist, James is now Fax: 44350474 are the way they are, what drives their whole culture, and ready to leap into the unknown and embark on a quest to what their approach to life can teach the rest of us. So far reconcile these contradictions and to truly understand so good, but it won’t be easy. He can’t speak the language, what makes Japan tick. Tuesday, June 23, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY Self-care promotes mental energy Putting time into your appearance, physical well-being, and emotional self-care routine has a payoff. You will feel more ambitious and eager to tackle your goals, writes Judi Light Hopson Becky believes anyone’s personal energy starts to drop when they neglect their looks and exercise routine. She was napping three times a day until her sister snapped her out of the doldrums. “I’ve been using a YouTube workout video to exercise,” says a chef we’ll call Carl. “I’m not working now, so I’m turning into a couch potato. Exercising keeps me from feeling depressed.” A couple we’ll call William and Kathy keep themselves revved up by doing the following: 1. They take a drive to a local park three days a week. They have a little picnic in the car and then walk for 30 minutes. 2. They each take a long soak in their old clawfoot bathtub one night each week. They add bath salts and rub themselves down with lotion afterwards. 3. They order clothes online once a month. Both William and Kathy feel that a new outfit, even if it’s something as basic as sweatpants and a simple shirt, makes them feel nurtured. “We’ve tried to eat more fruits and vegetables the past three months,” says Kathy. “We were eating too much fast food and PRIORITISE YOURSELF: Pencilling in self-care into your daily routine will affirm that you’re a priority. way too much meat. Nowadays, we create healthy salads and cook soups with many types of ave you noticed that vegetables.” you feel energised When we’re under stress, we all when you feel loved tend to neglect ourselves. We push and nurtured? to take care of business, our bills, Putting time into our homes, and those we love. Hyour appearance, physical well- Then, when we run out of time, being, and emotional self-care we skip a lot of self-care that routine has a payoff. You will could really do us some good. feel more ambitious and eager to “Sitting at the computer tackle your goals. too much will slow down your We’ve all heard the old adage: metabolism,” says a gym owner “When you look good, you feel we’ll call Rita. “Getting up to good. And, when you feel good, exercise on a treadmill or bike for you do good.” Not necessarily fifteen minutes every two hours sharp grammar, but you get the will help.” point. Rita says she’s had to take her Good self-care infuses energy own advice recently. She’d been into our spirits and helps us stay staying home most of the time. upbeat. Her energy had plummeted and Also, when we’ve put effort she’s gained weight. But, she’s into our health and appearance, gearing up to re-open her gym in we can actually stop focusing the near future. on ourselves. We can place our “My husband puts on music energy and attention on other every day at 5:30, so we can people. exercise for 45 minutes,” Rita “When I have a nice haircut points out. “On weekends, we and style, I smile more and enjoy exercise vigorously for ninety being around other people,” minutes on Saturdays and says a financial adviser we’ll call Sundays. I now feel more alert.” Becky. “These days, when I’m Pencilling in self-care into working from home, no one sees STAY ACTIVE: Sitting at the computer too much will slow down your metabolism. Getting up to exercise on a your daily routine will affirm that me. So, I’ve been looking pretty treadmill or bike for fifteen minutes every two hours will help. you’re a priority. Without that neglected. feeling, you’ll likely feel depressed “A couple of weeks ago,” she give up the faded gray t-shirts I colours instead. She also insisted And, I’ve got to say, she really did and you’ll have much less drive to continues, “my sister told me to was wearing and wear brighter I let her cut my hair and colour it. a good job.” accomplish anything. – TNS 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, June 23, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Writing on the wall If an effective vaccine won’t be ready until well into 2021, we’ll all be co-existing with the coronavirus for the next year or longer without a magic bullet, writes Michelle Cortez he virus is winning. That and policy flexibility to limit the much is certain more than destructive capacity of an expanding six months into a shape- pandemic, which may result in global shifting pandemic that’s deaths of more than one million killed 450,000 people according to one estimate, until there Tworldwide, is gaining ground globally are medical tools to effectively treat and has disrupted lives from Wuhan and immunise against the virus. People are fatigued. to Sao Paulo. “People are fatigued. They They mistakenly While promising, fast-moving mistakenly feel that things were vaccine projects are underway in going away,” said Cameron Wolfe, feel that things China, Europe and the US, only an infectious-disease doctor and the most optimistic expect an associate professor of medicine at were going away. effective shot to be ready for global Duke University. “We’re going to distribution this year. have to figure out a way to live with We’re going to have If, as most experts believe, an this.” to figure out a way effective vaccine won’t be ready until Complicating matters, the well into 2021, we’ll all be co-existing perceived threat varies from to live with this with the coronavirus for the next neighbourhood to neighbourhood, year or longer without a magic bullet. let alone country to country. Much And this next phase of the crisis may depends on the severity of local — Cameron Wolfe, require us to reset our expectations outbreaks and the effectiveness and awareness and change our of testing, contact tracing, social Associate Professor behaviour, according to public- distancing, hospital systems and health professionals. public-health messaging that is free ‘ of Medicine In their view, success isn’t defined of political shading. as returning to life as it was in 2019. Leaders such as US President Rather, it’s about buying time and Donald Trump, British Prime ’ summoning the staying power Minister Boris Johnson or Brazilian Tuesday, June 23, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY President Jair Bolsonaro have seen of Medicine.