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MUHARRAM 6, 1442 AH TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2020 16 Pages Max 45º Min 29º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18213 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net 80% adherence to anti-virus Nightmares, flashbacks, fatigue: Gold hunters destroy Bayern defeat PSG to become 2 measures by gyms, shops 5 Beirut faces mental health crisis 13 Sudan’s priceless past 16 European champs for 6th time No new virus test required for trips of less than 4 days US approves plasma treatment • Global death toll above 800,000 By B Izzak and Agencies produce plasma artificially to help treat coronavirus patients. The process entails taking samples from KUWAIT/WASHINGTON: Kuwait’s civil aviation COVID-19 patients who have recovered from the private sector to the government should comply authority said people who travel out of Kuwait and disease, and transfusing it to current patients to help New curbs on with procedures followed by the manpower return within four days are not required to do a new them boost their immunity, the blood bank’s head of authority and the Civil Service Commission. The PCR coronavirus test on their return. The authority blood transfusion Dr Reem Al-Radhwan told KUNA decision to ban transfers of government workers to has already extended the validity of the PCR test to at the time. Blood plasma extracted from a former visa transfers to the private sector exempts Kuwaiti women’s hus- four days instead of three (96 hours instead of 72 patient could help treat three active patients, she bands and children, wives of Kuwaitis, Palestinians hours) for travelers returning to Kuwait or flying out added. private sector with travel documents and those in specialized technical professions in the health field who are of Kuwait. The authority said travelers who take the Many governments around the world are renew- test and fly out of Kuwait and then return within 96 ing efforts - including the reimposition of lockdowns KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Manpower transferring to licensed facilities to provide medical hours are not required to repeat the coronavirus test. - to contain the virus, which has infected well over 24 yesterday issued a decision banning the transfer of services, such as doctors, nurses and others in the Meanwhile, the United States announced an emer- million people. The United States remains the hard- government workers to the private sector and medical field. gency authorization to use blood plasma from recov- est-hit country with more than 176,000 fatalities, and placed restrictions on the transfer of dependent Moussa said only certain categories of expats visas to work visas in the private sector. Director are allowed to transfer dependent visas to work in ered coronavirus patients as a treatment for the dis- President Donald Trump is under intense pressure to General of the Public Authority for Manpower the private sector, including husbands and children ease, which has killed more than 800,000 people curb the contagion. The plasma therapy shows “an Ahmad Al-Moussa said the decisions are based on of Kuwaiti women, those born in Kuwait, around the world. Plasma is believed to contain pow- incredible rate of success” and “will save countless the instructions of Social Affairs Minister and State Palestinians with travel documents and those hav- erful antibodies that can help fight COVID-19 faster, lives”, Trump claimed on Sunday - but that went Minister for Economic Affairs Mariam Al-Aqeel. ing at least a diploma after the secondary stage and has already been used on patients in the US and much further than his own health officials’ cautious Moussa said transferring employees from the from Kuwaiti educational establishments. other countries. welcome of the treatment. In April, Kuwait’s central blood bank started to Continued on Page 2 NZ mosque 15 killed in survivors twin bombing face gunman in Philippines CHRISTCHURCH, New MANILA: Twin blasts including a suicide bombing Zealand: The white killed 15 people and wounded 75 others on a restive supremacist who murdered southern Philippine island yesterday, among them 51 Muslims in last year’s security forces and civilians, with Islamist militants New Zealand mosques suspected of being behind the attack. The bombs shooting showed no emotion went off within an hour of each other in the main yesterday as distraught sur- town on Jolo island, a stronghold of Abu Sayyaf, an vivors confronted him in Islamic State-linked group that has intensified its court with harrowing campaign in recent years through the use of suicide accounts of the atrocity. At bombers. the opening of the sentenc- There was no immediate claim of responsibility ing hearing in a Christchurch Brenton Tarrant for what was the biggest attack of its kind in the courtroom, prosecutors southern Philippines since Jan 2019, when a double revealed chilling details of a meticulously planned suicide bombing at a Jolo church killed more than attack in which Brenton Tarrant wanted “to have shot 20 people and wounded over 100. The military said more people than he did”. the first blast happened around noon yesterday, With the Australian gunman face-to-face with the when a homemade bomb in a motorcycle was trig- bereaved families and wounded for the first time, sur- gered close to two parked army trucks, killing sol- vivors told of hiding under bodies, of forgiving diers and civilians. JOLO: Military personnel and civilians stretcher away a soldier after an improvised bomb exploded Continued on Page 2 Continued on Page 2 next to a military vehicle in this town on Sulu island yesterday. — AFP the coronavirus pandemic. Then Indian resort After Beirut came the blast in Beirut’s port that killed more than 181 people, wound- ed thousands and devastated turns pool blast, workers swathes of the city. Many say it was just one disaster into fish farm beg to leave too many, and now they need to leave. “I love Lebanon, but I don’t BEIRUT: After struggling first want to live here anymore,” Kebeda KOCHI, India: A luxury resort in southern through Lebanon’s economic crisis said. “There’s no more work. How India has turned its swimming pool into a and then the coronavirus pandemic, will I eat?” Some foreign workers fish farm to stop the business sinking amid Ethiopian worker Tarik Kebeda said also say they feel sidelined by aid the economic crisis caused by the coron- the deadly blast that ripped through efforts. In the poor neighborhood of avirus pandemic. Normally the 150-m pool her Beirut home was the final straw. Karantina, Kebeda’s neighbor Hana at the Aveda Resort in Kerala state is packed Inside the small house she shares claimed aid workers sometimes put with European tourists. Now thousands of with four friends, she pointed to the fellow Lebanese first. Next door, 31- pearl spot fish are causing the splash. window frames covered by sheets, year-old Romane Abera recounted The complex was forced to shut in March because the glass was smashed out how she hid beneath a parked car to when a nationwide coronavirus lockdown by the Aug 4 explosion. They had hide from the explosion. was ordered. Few hotels have been allowed already lost their jobs - as domestic “Once, a truck came to distribute to reopen since. Of those which are still workers, or in supermarkets or food boxes but they said: ‘Only give shuttered, not many boast a pool with 7.5 KUMARAKOM, India: A general view of a swimming pool that has been turned into a fish restaurants - but now their home them to the Lebanese’,” Hana said. million litres of water, which can be put to farm is pictured at Kerala’s Aveda Resort on Sunday. — AFP too is at risk. Today her damaged home is barely alternative use. “We have had zero revenues, “I’m scared to sleep here,” the held up by scaffolding, with hot so in June, we put around 16,000 two- export to the Middle East,” Surendran said, money would help cover basic bills so the 22-year old said, showing the deep gusts of summer air sweeping month-old pearl spot fish in the pool,” predicting about four tons of pearl spots business can keep running until tourists cracks running down the bedroom’s through a huge hole in the wall. “I Aveda’s general manager Jyotish Surendran growing in the swimming pool could be return. And the Aveda plans to keep faith walls, saying she feared the building wish Lebanon could go back to how told AFP. worth $40,000 on the market. with the pearl spot even when business “will collapse on top of us”. it was before,” said Abera, who left The fish, which takes about eight months The makeshift farm would not cover the resumes. “We can’t continue with this farm in Thousands of foreign workers were behind her baby boy in Ethiopia to reach full size, is a popular ingredient in losses from the pandemic, which has driven the pool, but we are trying to find alternative already stranded in Lebanon, after and recently lost her job. dishes in southern India and the Middle East. many hotels to bankruptcy, said the hotel land where we can build up this knowledge months of dollar shortages and then Continued on Page 2 “We plan to harvest by November and will boss. But Surendran was hopeful that the for bigger projects,” he said. — AFP 2 Established 1961 Tuesday, August 25, 2020 Local Kuwait’s Deputy Amir gets call from Bahraini King inquiring about Amir Speaker: Deputy Amir’s call ‘necessary and warranted’ KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy His Highness Sheikh Nawaf had also describing his earlier address as firm Highness, while stressing the need to Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf received a cable on Sunday from and clear.