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SAFAR 17, 1442 AH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2020 16 Pages Max 40º Min 23º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18248 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net New academic year begins for Trump positive test underscores In Mosul, statues rise Man City held by Leeds; 4 public, private Arabic schools 7 this is the Coronavirus Election 12 from ashes of IS rule 16 Chelsea click into gear Trump in military hospital after COVID-19 diagnosis Amir wishes US president speedy recovery • Trump taking experimental drugs WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump was in a military hospital yesterday for treatment after Amir meets Assembly speaker testing positive for COVID-19, an extraordinary development that upended the presidential race a month before the Nov 3 election. Roughly 17 hours after he made his diagnosis public, Trump walked slowly from the White House to a waiting helicopter to be taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He wore a mask and business suit and did not speak to reporters. “I think I’m doing very well, but we’re going to make sure that things work out,” Trump said in a brief video message posted on Twitter. Early on Friday, he had tweeted that he and the first lady, WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump gives a Melania Trump, had contracted the virus. Trump will thumbs up as he walks to Marine One prior to depar- work in a special suite at the hospital for the next ture from the South Lawn of the White House for few days as a precautionary measure, White House Walter Reed Military Medical Center on Friday. —AFP press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said. HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah cabled Trump on Friday, wishing and had received a first dose of Remdesivir, an him and the First Lady rapid recovery from intravenous antiviral drug sold by Gilead Sciences COVID-19. HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Inc that has been shown to shorten hospital stays. Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent a similar cable In a tweet late on Friday, the president wrote: to the US president. “Going well, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!!” Trump, 74, has a mild fever, according to a Online video showed a small group of Trump sup- KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives National Assembly Speaker source familiar with the matter. White House doctor porters outside Walter Reed late on Friday waving Marzouq Al-Ghanem at Dar Al-Yamama yesterday. — KUNA Sean P Conley said late on Friday that Trump was Trump 2020 flags, most not wearing masks. doing very well, did not need supplemental oxygen, Continued on Page 2 But the irony of the latest twist in the dent during their off-the-rails debate, Biden now the septuagenarian showdown was lost on no three nights before Trump’s diagnosis. one. After all, just Tuesday night Trump Biden and his wife were quickly tested for doubled down on his ribbing of Biden for the virus Friday. Minutes after their results only man on taking too many virus precautions. “He came back negative, his team fired up the could be speaking 200 feet away from campaign jet and Biden flew to battle- campaign trail you, and he shows up with the biggest ground Michigan, a key Rust Belt state mask I’ve seen,” the 74-year-old that Trump claimed in 2016. GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan: For Republican incumbent sneered. The somber appearance at a labor months Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden In the early months of the pandemic, union in Grand Rapids had only a few for his cautious campaigning during the as Biden, 77, remained isolated in his dozen people present and no visible per- coronavirus pandemic. But with the presi- Delaware home, Trump belittled sonal interaction with voters. But the mes- dent in quarantine from Friday after testing “Sleepy Joe” for “hiding” in his base- sage was clear: Biden is not letting Trump’s positive for COVID-19, his Trump train ment - a charge his supporters lapped diagnosis upend his own campaigning, derailed for now, Democratic challenger up and repeated ad infinitum. But on which has ramped up recently including Biden has the stage to himself one month Friday, Trump was the one hunkered Wednesday’s whistle-stop train tour before Election Day. It is too soon to pre- down, receiving treatment at the Walter across Ohio and Pennsylvania. Michigan dict how Trump’s diagnosis could impact Reed military hospital after his positive voters who lined the road outside Biden’s the White House race, already the most diagnosis. event offered their own take on recent turbulent US presidential battle of modern Biden mostly has been meticulous about developments, with one woman holding a times and one repeatedly upended by his- avoiding crowds and wearing masks in small sign reading “Masks work”. Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden departs New Castle Airport in tory-making events. public. But he was on stage with the presi- Continued on Page 2 Delaware on Friday. — AFP assembled media, the team revealed mummified Egypt unveils remains wrapped in burial cloth that bore hiero- India virus deaths glyphic inscriptions in bright colors. The dramatic find was unearthed south of Cairo coffins buried in the sprawling burial ground of Saqqara, the pass 100,000 necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital of NEW DELHI: Deaths from the novel coronavirus in 2,500 yrs ago Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage site. “We India passed 100,000 yesterday, official data showed are very happy about this discovery,” said as the pandemic continued to rage across the world’s SAQQARA, Egypt: Archaeologists in Egypt said Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme second most populous country. A total of 100,842 yesterday they had found 59 well-preserved and Council of Antiquities. Since the find of the first 13 people have now died, health ministry figures showed, sealed wooden coffins over recent weeks that coffins was announced almost three weeks ago, giving India the third-highest death toll in the world were buried more than 2,500 years ago. Opening more have been discovered in shafts at depths of behind the United States and Brazil. In terms of infec- one of the ornately decorated sarcophagi before up to 12 m. — AFP tions, India has recorded 6.47 million cases and is on course to overtake the US as the country with the most infections in the coming weeks. India’s population of 1.3 billion is, however, around four times larger than that of the United States, which has seen more than twice as many deaths, raising MUMBAI: A health worker collects a swab sample doubts about India’s official numbers. “We do not from a child during a medical screening for COVID-19 know the reliability of death rates in India,” virologist yesterday. — AFP T Jacob John told AFP. “India does not have a public health surveillance system, documenting real-time all vey suggesting that more than 60 million people - 10 disease events and deaths,” he said. times the official figure - could have contracted the virus. Even though India is carrying out around one mil- At the same time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s lion tests per day, as a percentage of the population its government is pressing ahead with opening up Asia’s testing rate is much lower than many other countries. third-largest economy even as virus cases surge. A The United States, for example, has tested more than strict lockdown imposed in March not only failed to five times as many people as India proportionately, stop the spread of the virus but also caused misery for according to tracking website Worldometer. millions of people suddenly left jobless. In the last That India’s real numbers might be much worse than quarter, the Indian economy - which even before the the official data suggest is borne out by a string of studies pandemic was struggling - shrank 24 percent, one of SAQQARA, Egypt: A sarcophagus excavated by the Egyptian archaeological mission working at the Saqqara measuring antibodies to the virus among the population. the steepest drops of any major economy. necropolis is opened yesterday. — AFP On Tuesday, India’s lead pandemic agency released a sur- Continued on Page 2 2 Established 1961 Sunday, October 4, 2020 Local Mourners in Belgium pay respects to late Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah remembered for ‘tireless work’ for reconciliation in the region BRUSSELS: Top officials from the European Union (EU), NATO, Belgium, diplomats, and others visited the Kuwait House in Brussels to pay their respects and sign the book of condolence for His Highness the late Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah from Wednesday till Friday evening in Brussels. EU Commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management Janez Lenarcic said, “It is with deep sadness that we in the European Union have learnt the passing away of His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Sabah.” “We will remember him for his tireless work for reconciliation in the region as well as beyond,” he said after signing the condolence book last evening. “We will cherish his memory as a humanitarian leader and we wish to extend to the people of Kuwait and to his family and to the government of Kuwait our deep condolences,” the top EU official added. Meanwhile, NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana said that he came here to the Kuwait residence “to express our condolences on behalf of NATO BRUSSELS: EU Commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management Janez Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and myself Lenarcic signs the condolence book.