Ships, Planes, Trains, Scooters All Need a Virus Wipe. but What Does a ‘Deep Clean’ Mean? P4-5

Thursday, March 19, 2020 Rajab 24, 1441 AH Doha today 220 - 280 COVER Clean-up STORY Ships, planes, trains, scooters all need a virus wipe. But what does a ‘deep clean’ mean? P4-5 REVIEWS BACK PAGE The Hunt arrives after Physical activity can help with months of controversy. coronavirus scare while stuck at home. Page 14 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, March 19, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT SEASONS TO BINGE WATCH ON NETFLIX PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.22am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.40am Zuhr (noon) 11.43am Asr (afternoon) 3.09pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.46pm Isha (night) 7.16pm USEFUL NUMBERS The Crown prospect of leading the world’s most famous monarchy DIRECTION: Peter Morgan while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister, CAST: Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Matt Smith Sir Winston Churchill. The British Empire is in decline, the SYNOPSIS: The show focuses on Queen Elizabeth II as political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the a twenty-five-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting throne....a new era is dawning. 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 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Office (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Riverdale of Riverdale investigates the murder. 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Qatar Airways 40253374 ote Unquo Qu te “Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” — Mark Twain Community Editor Kamran Rehmat e-mail: [email protected] The 100 humanity’s lone survivors sends one hundred juvenile Telephone: 44466405 DIRECTION: Jason Rothenberg delinquents back to Earth, in hopes of possibly re- Fax: 44350474 CAST: Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley, Marie Avgeropoulos populating the planet, the mystery unfolds that there may SYNOPSIS: Set ninety-seven years after a nuclear be more survivors on Earth already then they were actually war has destroyed civilisation, when a spaceship housing anticipating. Thursday, March 19, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY Seven ways to stay physically active when stuck at home Being inside for long periods of time or feeling isolated can be stressful – and boring but you can still remain active and fit, writes Courtney Kueppers CONVENIENT: You don’t have to pay big bucks or leave your home to do yoga. Just put on something comfortable HEALTHY: Walking everyday can help you maintain a healthy weight and and pull up YouTube. improve your mood. usinesses and mental health as well. “Cleaning universities across the your house can incorporate a variety globe are opting to have of muscle groups without you even employees work from realizing it,” personal trainer Rich home and students Gaspari told Everyday Health. Bpartake in “remote learning” in an attempt to combat the spread of the Simple exercises: coronavirus. You don’t need expensive exercise However, being inside for long equipment or access to a gym to do periods of time or feeling isolated simple exercises like planks, wall can be stressful – and boring. sits or squats. There are a variety of Experts at the Atlanta-based routines you can find online and on CentrEs for Disease Control and YouTube. Prevention recommend staving off the anxiety associated with ‘social Dance it out: distancing’ by keeping up a healthy Put on some tunes and have a routine, including healthy eating living room dance party. It’s also a and regular exercise. good way to keep kids active, if they If you’re stuck at home, for are home from school and stuck whatever reason, here are some inside. ways to remain physically active “Dance is an effective form of from the comfort of your living exercise and can burn just as many room. calories as swimming, walking, or SIMPLE EXERCISES: You don’t need expensive exercise equipment or access to a gym to do simple exercises like bike riding. The amount of calories Online yoga: planks, wall sits or squats. you will burn depends on the Yoga can be not only good for intensity of the dance, the length of your physical health, but can Adrienne, Yoga By Candace and Health magazine also recommends try several short sessions of activity dance, how much effort you put in, improve general wellness by Body Positive Yoga. getting up and walking every time throughout the day. Any amount and how much you weigh,” active. relieving stress and improving your phone rings, or pings? of activity is better than none at com notes. emotional health, sleep and balance, Schedule reminders: all,” the Mayo Clinic notes on its the National Institute of Health When you’re working from home Go for a walk: website. Create a circuit workout: notes. It can also relieve low-back or just lounging on the couch, it’s Try taking a break in the day to The American Heart Association and neck pain and help manage easy for time to slip away from you go for a walk. Experts at the Mayo Try tidying up: has recommendations on its website anxiety and depressive symptoms. quickly. To avoid spending hours in Clinic note that walking everyday Cleaning your house can be a for a simple circuit workout that You don’t have to pay big bucks front of a screen without moving, can help you maintain a healthy win-win. Lifting laundry, going up can be done at home, including or leave your home to do yoga. Just try setting some reminders on your weight and improve your mood. “As and down stairs, being on your feet jumping jacks, high knees, push put on something comfortable and phone, computer or smart speaker a general goal, aim for at least 30 can all add up to a good amount ups and lunges. It can be modified pull up YouTube. Some popular to get up and move, grab a drink of minutes of physical activity a day. If of physical activity. Then, having for individual use. – The Atlanta channels include Yoga With water or do some stretching. Best you can’t set aside that much time, a clean space can help with your Journal-Constitution/TNS 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, March 19, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Corona the menace While cleaning for the coronavirus is not that different from disinfecting for other viruses, like the flu or a common cold, industries are tailoring the cleaning in keeping with what makes sense for them, write Victoria Knight and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez SPOTLIGHT: Consumers concerned about the prospects of getting infected with the coronavirus might be considering cancelling their cruises. But travel insiders remind cruisers that only one ship, the Diamond Princess, has had a documented infection on board. No cleaning protocol is perfect. But combining cleaning with other public health initiatives, such as social distancing, will act in concert hopefully in reducing the transmission of the coronavirus — Benjamin Lopman, associate ‘ professor of epidemiology ’ Thursday, March 19, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY he Diamond Princess cruise ship. A Georgetown church in Washington, DC. A Latin American restaurant in TRaleigh, NC. A hotel in Oklahoma City. Two Broadway theatres in New York City. All announced that they’ve undergone a “deep clean” in recent weeks after discovering that a person infected with the novel coronavirus had been there. They are just the tip of a pile of businesses and consumer gathering spots that say they are stepping up cleaning protocols. While cleaning for the coronavirus is not that different from disinfecting for other viruses, like the flu or a common cold, industries are tailoring the cleaning in keeping with what makes sense for them. Public health officials suggest a few common steps can be used by both businesses and individual households: increasing the frequency of cleanings, using disinfectant products that federal officials say are effective, cleaning “high-touch” spots and making hand sanitiser readily available. But there is no universal protocol for a “deep clean” to eradicate the coronavirus. Ridding it from smooth surfaces is easier than getting it out of upholstery or carpeting, for instance. And the to spray a mist of disinfectant on temperature at which bedding, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), and workstations to create more key to eliminating the spread of surfaces throughout the cabin on all napkins, towels and tablecloths are the train and bus authority in the space among clients and adding the virus hinges on good hygiene trans-Pacific flights arriving in the washed and using “electro-static San Francisco Bay Area, is installing time to work out classes to ensure practices. US and flights from Italy landing applications through specialised hand sanitiser dispensers at each of that every piece of equipment that “No cleaning protocol is in certain American airports, its machines” for deep cleanings to be its 48 stations, the general manager is touched is wiped down after use. perfect,” said Benjamin Lopman, an website says. It plans to extend the conducted at night.

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