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RAMADAN 12, 1441 AH TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2020 20 Pages Max 40º Min 22º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18124 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Respirators, protective gear Shah Rukh Khan, Will Smith Jordanians showcase ‘talent 3 arrive in Kuwait from China 14 in glittery India virus benefit 15 from home’ for hit contest Imsak 03:26 Fajr 03:36 Dhuhr 11:45 Asr 15:20 Maghrib 18:26 Isha 19:51 Kuwait police use tear gas to disperse Egyptians in camps Egyptians to leave this week • Clampdown on visa traders • Citizen sent to quarantine By B Izzak days. Kuwait has pressed the Egyptian and other governments hard to repa- KUWAIT: Kuwait riot police used triate their nationals, but nothing has teargas to disperse hundreds of happened, which has frustrated the stranded Egyptian workers who workers. The interior ministry said in a demonstrated inside their temporary statement that security men brought shelters to press their embassy offi- the shelter back under control and cials to repatriate them. The violence ended the riots. It said that some broke out at Kabd shelters when the workers have been arrested but did workers, waiting for more than three not say if any of them was wounded. weeks to be repatriated, marched at The statement said representatives the camp’s gates shouting slogans that of the Egyptian embassy arrived at the they wanted to go home. scene and told their citizens that Riots later broke out at another flights to repatriate them back home shelter in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh. About will start this week. The Egyptian 7,000 Egyptian workers have been embassy expressed its apology for the housed at the shelters since early April riots, the statements said. The ministry after they applied to benefit from an called on the workers to remain quiet amnesty for illegal residents, but the and warned that it will deal promptly Egyptian government refused to take with rioters. Interior Minister Anas Al- them back although Kuwait will bear Saleh visited the site and praised the the repatriation costs. Images posted police force for what they did to on the social media by the workers ensure security. showed them marching on the gates, The violence broke out hours after shouting slogans like “where is the Egyptian Ambassador to Kuwait Tareq embassy” and “we want to go home”. Al-Qooni announced that repatriation Some of the workers said they reg- flights will start this week to take resi- istered for the amnesty with the dence violators back home and that impression that they will be sent home the first flights will be for women and quickly, but instead they have been children. KUWAIT: A COVID-19 drive-thru testing center is being readied near the airport. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat living in these shelters for over 25 Continued on Page 16 ticking. Lockdowns imposed on half of the blow out his birthday candles, to see our Europe emerges planet in a bid to stem the spread have parents,” the father-of-three said. derailed economies and left tens of millions Italy’s economy - the eurozone’s third- of people out of work. largest - is expected to shrink more than in from lockdown; Politicians are now grappling with how any year since the global depression of the to get the wheels turning again without 1930s. The previously booming economy in cases top 3.5m sparking a second wave of infections. Italy the United States was supposed to be the - second only to the United States in its centerpiece of Donald Trump’s November ROME: Millions of Europeans emerged COVID-19 death toll - was gingerly re-election bid. But weeks of lockdown from lockdown yesterday, with hardest-hit emerging into the spring sunshine yester- have left 30 million Americans out of work Italy leading the way out of its two-month day, with construction sites and factories - and the president’s poll numbers sagging. coronavirus confinement. At least 3.5 mil- getting back to work. Trump has increasingly taken to blaming lion people are now known to have been Restaurants reopened for takeaways, China for the outbreak, and says there is infected by the disease, but US President but bars and ice cream parlours will remain proof it started in a Chinese laboratory. Donald Trump offered hope for an end to shut. The use of public transport is being China denies the claims, and the US the nightmare, saying there would be a discouraged and everyone will have to Director of National Intelligence has said vaccine by year’s end. wear masks in indoor public spaces. “We analysts are still examining the exact origin. Around 248,000 people have died since are feeling a mix of joy and fear,” 40-year- Most scientists say the disease arose natu- the coronavirus emerged in China late last old Stefano Milano said in Rome. “There rally in the animal kingdom. But Trump’s year and swept across the globe, given will be great happiness in being able to go chief diplomat on Sunday ran with his MILAN: Commuters sit in the metro where red circles on the ground indicate wings by the vast network of air routes running again carefree, in my son being boss’s position, citing “enormous” evidence where to stand to maintain distance between people yesterday, as Italy starts that in normal times keep the modern world allowed to have his little cousin over to Continued on Page 16 to ease its lockdown. — AFP Trump promises US: ‘Evidence’ vaccine, sees an virus came ‘incredible’ future from China lab WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump relaunched his election campaign Sunday with a live WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Mike television event inside the iconic Lincoln Memorial, Pompeo on Sunday stepped up a US campaign promising an early coronavirus vaccine and urging to hold China accountable for the spread of the Americans to put the pandemic behind them to deadly coronavirus, asserting there is “enor- embrace an “incredible” future. With the two-hour mous evidence” the virus originated in a labora- long Fox News “town hall,” Trump sought to wrap tory in the city of Wuhan. The high-security himself in the mantle of America’s arguably greatest bio-containment facility, the Wuhan Institute of president - and to persuade a nation battered by Virology, has called such claims “impossible”. death and mass unemployment to look ahead. Pompeo, speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” did “We can’t stay closed as a country, we’re not not elaborate on what he also described as “sig- going to have a country left,” he said on the show, nificant amounts of evidence”. But Pompeo’s where two moderators, as well as ordinary citizens words clearly sought to buttress repeated criti- via video, put questions to him in front of the monu- cism from Donald Trump about China’s role in ment. “We’re going to have an incredible following the pandemic. year,” he said. To a woman who called in expressing The US president has said that by playing fear of financial ruin and eviction, Trump said her down the gravity of the virus early this year and job would come back. “You get a job where you failing to fully cooperate with international make more money,” he said. investigators, Beijing put lives at risk around the WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks during a Fox News virtual town hall “America Saying Americans should start going back to world. Pompeo’s comments came as an Together: Returning to Work,” event with anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum from the Lincoln Continued on Page 16 beaches this summer and recommending that Memorial on Sunday. — AFP Continued on Page 16 2 Established 1961 Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Local Engineers society offers 40,000 face shields to COVID-19 frontliners Thirty-nine state departments received transparent masks Chairman of Kuwait Society of Engineers Faisal Al-Atel (second from right) with police officers Boxes containing the face shields are loaded on a truck to be taken to front- KUWAIT: Face shields distributed by Kuwait Soci- during the handover of the protective masks. — KUNA photos line workers. ety of Engineers to workers at the frontlines. KUWAIT: Chairman of Kuwait Society of Engineers the National Guard, the Directorate General of Civil has opened new production lines in collaboration KSE request for allocating three quarantine sites. (KSE) Faisal Al-Atel said the society has made nearly Aviation (DGCA), the Special Forces, the Environ- with the engineering department of the Kuwait In- The three sites, with a 300-person occupancy 40,000 face shields that will be offered for free to ment Public Authority, the Public Authority of Man- stitute for Scientific Research and the Public Author- each, were fully equipped and one of them went frontline workers fighting the novel coronavirus power, Kuwait General Administration of Customs ity for Applied Education and Training (PAAET). The operational, he stated. Atel added that the KSE set (COVID-19). “Thirty-nine state departments have and the Fire Service Directorate.” society started producing more practical facemasks up teams of volunteers comprising of more than received these transparent masks and will distribute “Nearly 84 service centers belonging to the Min- and other personal protection items, Atel noted. 200 male and female engineers to back up the them to the working teams soon,” he said yesterday. istry of Health and the Armed Forces also received On cooperation with the government, the KSE various government bodies in managing any “These include the ministries of health and interior, consignments of these masks,” Atel pointed out. KSE chair said the cabinet responded promptly to the emergencies.

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