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Qatar will work closely with UN to help meet needs of Yemeni people, says FM of State of Qatar allocated $100 million WFP chief thanks Qatar for in humanitarian aid to support Yemenis allocating $100 million to help through the efforts of the United Nations World Food Programme. Amir condoles with ensure food security in Yemen In a tweet, the Government Communi- QNA cations Office (GCO) said Qatar is commit- Tajikistan President Washington ted to supporting the Yemeni people in or- der to help them overcome their difficulties QNA Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of and alleviate the exacerbation of the human Doha Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed tragedy. bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has reaffirmed Qatar provided Yemen close to $195 mil- His Highness the Amir of State of Qatar that Qatar will continue to work closely lion from 2013 to 2020, to support develop- Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has with the United Nations and its agencies ment efforts. sent a cable of condolences to President to help address the immediate needs of the In 2018, Qatar provided $70 million to of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rah- Yemeni people. support adequate access to water and sani- mon on the death of his sister. In a tweet, the FM said, “During my tation services, in cooperation with United meeting with @WFPChief today, I reaf- Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). firmed that #Qatar will continue to work In 2019, Qatar granted $27 million to closely with the @UN and its agencies support the United Nations Humanitarian to help address the immediate needs in Response Plan for Yemen. Yemen.” Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Likewise in 2020, Qatar granted $2 mil- FM meets Chairman of Sheikh Mohammed met with Executive Al Thani met with Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme David lion from Qatar Charity to the United Na- House Committee on Director of the United Nations World Food Beasley in Washington. tions Refugee Agency to support internally Programme David Beasley in Washington. displaced families in Yemen. Armed Services Cooperation relations between Qatar thanked Qatar for allocating $100 mil- relief and humanitarian programmes to In 2021, Qatar provided $100 million and the World Food Programme (WFP) lion in support of the its efforts to ensure mitigate the exacerbation of the human in humanitarian aid to support Yemenis were reviewed during the meeting. food security and avert famine in Yemen, tragedy there. through the efforts of the United Nations QNA The Executive Director of the WFP as well as assist the urgent United Nations On Wednesday, His Highness the Amir World Food Programme. Washington

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed Tala and Al Rumaihi named bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met with Chair- Qatar’s flag bearers for Tokyo man of the House Committee on Armed Olympics opening ceremony Services Adam Smith in Washington on Wednesday. Tribune News Network of her participation at the Tokyo During the meet- Doha Games. The 29-year-old will ing, they reviewed bilateral relations and also be in action on Friday in the increasing defense investments between the Rower Tala Abujbara and women’s singles sculls heats at two countries, as well as Al Udeid Air Base, shooter Mohamed Al Rumaihi the Sea Forest Waterway. COVID-19 recoveries the promotion of workers’ rights in Qatar and were named as Qatar’s joint flag Tala said she was proud to developments in the region. bearers for Friday’s opening cer- represent Qatari girls at the To- reach 222,600 The FM emphasised the distinguished emony of the Tokyo Olympics. kyo Olympics, adding that she Qatar on Thursday saw a spike new strategic relations between the two countries This was announced by Qatar was excited to compete at the daily COVID-19 cases with the Ministry and the continuation of Qatar’s efforts to Olympic Committee on Thurs- highest level on her first partici- of Public Health (MoPH) reporting 196 preserve and safeguard workers’ rights. day. This will be the first Olym- pation at the Olympics. She said infections -- 106 among community and pics edition where two athletes she hopes to improve her perfor- 90 among travellers. Also, 122 people representing both genders carry mance level. “I would like to do recovered from the virus in the past 24 their country’s flag. my best and work constantly on hours, bringing the total number of recov- The Tokyo 2020 Olympics developing my skills because eries in Qatar to 222,600. So far, Qatar opening ceremony will begin at reaching a top level requires has administered 3,614,811 COVID-19 Over 37.5 mn messages 8 pm (2 pm Doha Time). great effort and hard work. This vaccine doses, with 27,128 shot being Tala, who will become the will only be achieved through administered in the past 24 hours alone. sent through MoTC’s SMS first Qatari female athlete to perseverance and diligence. With this, 78.9 percent of the eligible gateway in 2021 Q2 (PG 2 ) represent Qatar in rowing at the Rowing is very difficult and ar- population has now received at least one Olympics, said that she is proud duous,” she said. page 12 dose of the vaccine. (TNN)

Two Pfizer, AstraZeneca doses work Major websites hit by global outage Many popular websites fell offline on Thursday in a widespread global outage of service. Visi- against Delta variant, finds study tors attempting to reach some sites received DNS errors, meaning their requests could not Two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca’s broadly the same as previously reported. reach the websites. COVID-19 vaccine are nearly as effec- Two shots of AstraZeneca vaccine Affected services included Airbnb, UPS, tive against the highly transmissible were 67 percent effective against the HSBC bank, British Airways and the PlayStation Delta coronavirus variant as they are Delta variant, up from 60 percent origi- network used for online games. against the previously dominant Alpha nally reported, and 74.5 percent effec- One popular DNS provider, Akamai, reported variant, according to a new study. tive against the Alpha variant, com- “an emerging issue” with its Edge DNS service. Research published in the New pared with an original estimate of 66 It has now tweeted that the issue has been England Journal of Medicine on percent effectiveness. fixed and “the service is resuming normal Wednesday showed the vaccines were “Only modest differences in vac- operations”. highly effective against the Delta vari- cine effectiveness were noted with the Internet outage monitoring platform Down- for users in Europe and the US, others in Asian ant, now the dominant strain world- Delta variant as compared with the Detector had reported thousands of problems nations continued to report problems. wide, provided a person had received Alpha variant after the receipt of two from its users across dozens o platforms. DNS — short for Domain Name System — two shots. vaccine doses,” Public Health England Previously it said the issue had been a turns the human-readable web addresses we The study confirms headline find- researchers wrote. “partial outage” - and some users reported be- use into addresses that point to a computer ings given by Public Health England Two doses of Pfizer shot 88% Data from Israel has estimated that ing able to access some compromised services server somewhere online. Disruptions often (PHE) in May about the efficacy of effective at preventing the Delta Pfizer’s shot is less effective against in different regions. mean that a web browser cannot find the con- COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-Bi- variant while two doses of symptomatic disease, although pro- As some websites began to appear again tent it is looking for. (Agencies) oNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca based tection against severe disease remains on real-world data. AstraZeneca are 67% effective high. PHE had previously said that the Wednesday’s study found that Pfizer first dose of either vaccine was 33 per- was 88 percent effective at preventing variant with both doses, compared with cent effective against symptomatic dis- symptomatic disease from the Delta 93.7 percent against the Alpha variant, ease from the Delta variant. (Agencies) HMC emergency departments see 1,456 cases on 3rd day of Eid (PG 2)