THULQADA 14, 1442 AH THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2021 16 Pages Max 48º Min 31º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18468 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net World powers in new Lifting off? Sudden travel Tunisia ‘trailblazer’ in Spain power into knockouts, 6 push for Libya peace 9 surge tests US airlines 13 Med seaweed farming 16 Ukraine through, Poland out Kuwaiti armed forces to help implement health measures Authorities to enforce restrictions on unvaccinated people KUWAIT: Kuwait has decided to use malls covering more than 6,000 armed forces to help implement the square meters. health measures adopted by the gov- Manfouhi explained that Kuwait ernment last week to confront the needs to intensify the application of spread of the coronavirus, the health requirements during the next Municipality announced yesterday. two months, hoping to achieve herd General Director of Kuwait immunity by increasing the percent- Municipality Ahmad Al-Manfouhi said age of vaccinated people. On June 14, in a statement that armed forces of Kuwait announced the discovery of the country will join state bodies to the first cases of the Delta COVID-19 confront the spread of COVID-19 and variant. Since June 13, Kuwait has to apply the government’s decision on opened all museums, cultural institu- restricting access to public venues for tions and facilities to the public, and unvaccinated people. has also started direct flights to the Manfouhi, who also heads the main United Kingdom, as part of efforts to committee to follow up the implemen- ease COVID-19 restrictions. tation of health measures, said the Meanwhile, opposition MPs and committee discussed yesterday the groups yesterday continued to lash mechanism for implementing the gov- out at the government and its sup- ernment’s decision. The committee porters in the National Assembly for decided to use the armed forces to passing the state budget, insisting that help civilian health teams implement approving the budget without a prop- the decision, starting on Sunday, to er debate is “an aggression on the restrict unvaccinated citizens and res- constitution”. Leading opposition KUWAIT: General Director of Kuwait Municipality Ahmad Al-Manfouhi heads a meeting of the committee to follow up the implementa- idents from entering restaurants, lawmaker Obaid Al-Wasmi said it tion of health measures yesterday. — KUNA cafes, gyms, salons and shopping Continued on Page 2 ment fund manager... today officially listed The some lost ground by 1040 GMT yesterday, punctu- News in brief First bitcoin fund in Bitcoin Fund on Nasdaq Dubai, the region’s interna- ating a rollercoaster month of trading, standing at tional exchange,” the bourse said in a statement. It $34,104 apiece. Chinese mines power nearly 80 Missing child found in manhole said that “this fund is the world’s first regulated percent of the global trade in cryptocurrencies Mideast launches major Bitcoin fund to be listed on the capital mar- despite a domestic trading ban since 2017. But in KUWAIT: Police on Tuesday found a child - who kets in the Middle East North Africa region”. recent months several provinces have ordered had been missing in Khaitan since the day before on Dubai bourse “Bitcoin trades 24 hours a day around the world, mines to close as Beijing puts the industry under the - trapped in a manhole. The nine-year-old and in Canada we trade around North American regulatory microscope. Egyptian boy had fallen into the four-meter-deep DUBAI: The Middle East’s first bitcoin fund market times and Dubai is almost perfectly opposite The 3iQ fund finished up 10.38 percent at $38.30 manhole that was covered with wood near an launched on the Dubai bourse yesterday, with of (those) trading hours,” 3iQ Corp chief executive following trading yesterday, according to the abandoned school. The boy was taken to hospital Canadian digital asset manager 3iQ Corp seeking to Fred Pye told Bloomberg Television. “We think if the Nasdaq Dubai website. The fund’s prospectus says for medical tests after firefighters safely extracted raise around $200 million in the offering. Created in market holds up for the next few months while we that it seeks to invest in long-term holdings of bit- him. His condition was described as stable. 2008 as an alternative to traditional currencies, bit- get the listing going, we expect to probably be coin as a less volatile alternative to direct invest- coin is the world’s most popular virtual unit, but its quite far north of ($200 million).” ments in unpredictable cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin price has slumped recently due to fresh moves from Bitcoin fell under $30,000 on Tuesday for the and other cryptocurrencies are minted by solving Oman launches residency scheme China to crack down on cryptocurrencies. first time in five months, hit by concerns over puzzles using powerful computers that consume “3iQ Corp., Canada’s largest digital asset invest- China’s ongoing crackdown. The unit had recovered enormous amounts of electricity. — AFP MUSCAT: Oman will begin issuing long-term residency to foreign investors, the government said yesterday. Foreign investors and retirees without causing any casualties or will be granted the right to long stays in the Attack on Iran damage. country under the scheme starting in September, “The saboteurs failed to carry out the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and atomic agency their plan,” the broadcaster added, Investment Promotion said. “The residency peri- without identifying the building or the od is for a renewable period of five or 10 years,” nature of the attack that had been it added. — AFP building foiled averted. The news of the attack came a day after the US Justice Department TEHRAN: Iran said it foiled a sabo- said it seized 33 Iranian government- Delta 90% of new EU cases tage attack yesterday on an atomic controlled media websites which it energy agency building in a mysteri- alleged were hosted on US-owned STOCKHOLM: The Delta variant, identified for ous incident that comes as the US domains in violation of sanctions. the first time in India, could account for 90 per- blocked Iran-linked websites and as Tehran warned yesterday that cent of new COVID cases in the European talks to revive a nuclear deal pro- Washington’s decision to block the Union in the coming months, the European gressed. State television said a “sabo- sites was “not constructive” for ongo- tage operation against one of the ing talks aimed at bringing the United TEHRAN: An Iranian youth shows on his mobile a statement declaring the website Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said of Iran’s Arabic-language channel Al-Alam has been seized by the US government yesterday. “It is very likely that the Delta variant buildings (of the Atomic Energy States back to the landmark 2015 Continued on Page 2 yesterday. — AFP will circulate extensively during the summer, Organization of Iran) was foiled” particularly among younger individuals that are not targeted for vaccination,” said Andrea Ammon, director of ECDC. — AFP benefit analysis as researchers probe Heart problems the shots’ probable links to myocardi- tis. The independent experts were to Thieves steal cow dung hear from CDC scientists that “the in teens after benefits still clearly outweigh the risks for COVID-19 vaccination in adoles- NEW DELHI: A massive manhunt is underway COVID shots cents and young adults”, according to in central India after a gang of robbers stole slides posted on the agency’s website. nearly a ton of cow dung from a village, police WASHINGTON: A panel of experts As of June 11, 323 people under the said. Villagers in the central state of convened by the top US health agency age of 29 who received mRNA Chhattisgarh complained to police last week was meeting yesterday to review data COVID vaccines have had confirmed after more than 800 kg of poo disappeared surrounding more than 300 confirmed cases of heart inflammation, myocardi- from their storehouse. Police said the gang cases of heart inflammation among tis, or inflammation of the heart lining, struck at night, breaking into the depository in adolescents and young adults after pericarditis, the experts were told. Of Korba district’s Dhurena village and fleeing with receiving mRNA COVID vaccines. these cases, 309 were hospitalized, of their pungent plunder estimated to be worth The committee, hosted by the whom 295 were discharged, nine some 1,600 rupees ($22). — AFP Centers for Disease Control and remain hospitalized with two in BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan: In this photo taken on May 13, 2021, Dash Hunger, Prevention (CDC), was to hear a risk- Continued on Page 2 12, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. — AFP 2 Established 1961 Thursday, June 24, 2021 Local Kuwait’s Amir receives Crown Prince, Speaker, Prime Minister KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Sabah meets His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. — Amiri Diwan photos meets Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem. Hamad Al-Sabah. KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Meanwhile, His Filipe VI, expressing sincere condolences on President Asharf Ghani, who expressed deepest Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received His Highness the Crown Prince received Speaker demise of Sheikh Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- condolences to His Highness on the sad occasion, Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al- Ghanem and His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Mubarak Al-Sabah.