Wednesday, April 8, 2020 Sha’ban 15, 1441 AH Doha today 260 - 350 CLOSE CALL: Katina Theodorou with her 20-month-old son Theo Nickels at home. Theodorou, a five-month pregnant respiratory therapist, was diagnosed with coronavirus after coming into contact with a patient who was also positive. She said Sunday was the first day she has been able to hold Theo since March 17. COVER STORY Life altering Survivors of coronavirus: Even as patients recover, the emotional scars linger. P4-5 BOLLYWOOD BACK PAGE I am not anxious about Qatar Foundation for Social Work the future: Sobhita. highlights efforts dealing with crisis. Page 14 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, April 8, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT SERIES TO BINGE WATCH ON NETFLIX PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.59am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.19am Zuhr (noon) 11.37am Asr (afternoon) 3.06pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.55pm Isha (night) 7.25pm USEFUL NUMBERS The Crown prospect of leading the world’s most famous monarchy DIRECTION: Peter Morgan while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister, CAST: Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Matt Smith Sir Winston Churchill. The British Empire is in decline, the SYNOPSIS: The show focuses on Queen Elizabeth II as political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the a twenty-five-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting throne....a new era is dawning. Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Office (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Riverdale of Riverdale investigates the murder. The series starts Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, DIRECTION: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa in September, the beginning of a new school year, that 40253369 CAST: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes brings with it new students, relationships, and reveals the Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 SYNOPSIS: After the death of one of the rich and mysteries of the past 4th of July. The teenage high school Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 popular Blossom twins on the 4th of July, the small town drama follows the plot. Qatar Airways 40253374 ote Unquo Qu te “I always entertain great hopes.” — Robert Frost Community Editor Kamran Rehmat e-mail: [email protected] The 100 humanity’s lone survivors sends one hundred juvenile Telephone: 44466405 DIRECTION: Jason Rothenberg delinquents back to Earth, in hopes of possibly re- Fax: 44350474 CAST: Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley, Marie Avgeropoulos populating the planet, the mystery unfolds that there may SYNOPSIS: Set ninety-seven years after a nuclear be more survivors on Earth already then they were actually war has destroyed civilisation, when a spaceship housing anticipating. Wednesday, April 8, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY Shape up at home Three HIIT exercises for beginners Plank: and hips in line with each other. Go Great for core stability and down on your elbows and hold for building overall strength. Get into a as long as you can manage, keeping press-up position, with your back your core engaged and feet close with convenience as flat as possible and shoulders together. Forget fancy kit. This is all you need to emerge from self-isolation fighting fit, writes Zoe Williams happening, stop the calisthenics and concentrate on star jumps. Press-ups are the thing nobody wants to talk about, because they’re such a fitness cliche. But everybody ought to do them, because they became a cliche for a reason – and you could do them in a large toilet cubicle. There are five types of press-up: regular; cross-over hand placement (this is genuinely impossible unless you are already Squat: allowing your knees to come very strong, but I only tried it Targets the whole body, over your toes, and keeping twice); Hindu, where you start including quads, glutes and your chest high, drop your hips in a downward dog; handstand hamstrings. Stand with feet down until you get to about 90 press-up (in your dreams); shoulder-width apart and push degrees. Then return to your and one-armed press-up (in your hips backwards. Without start position. your other, marginally more frightening dreams). Start by trying five at a time. Given that you have a huge amount of time, you will soon be racking up 240 in a day. I say “you” advisedly; I’m certainly not. But I am working on it, because the sense of progress plays a huge part in staying sane. Even to go from five half-press- ups a day to five full ones brings more than a sense of personal achievement. It says that some things haven’t changed, one season will still follow another, practice still makes, if not perfect, at least substantially less inept. You might get frustrated, but you don’t get bored. With pull-ups, you can switch from an overhand grip to underhand, you can stretch yourself by touching your chin to the bar, or going one-handed. If you don’t have a bar in your house, I’d recommend one, particularly if you like to row with your spouse about whether it has Mountain climber: the opposite leg. Do this in/ to be up all the damn time. Improves core stability, out motion as fast as you can, The classic small-space squat cardiovascular fitness and keeping your focus on the floor. (it’s actually called the “prisoner upper-body strength. From a Make sure your back is flat and squat”, at least by prisoners) is press-up position bring one leg core tucked is in – you don’t to push it slightly lower than a up as close as you can to your want your stomach to drop. regular squat, so that your thighs chest, before repeating with – The Guardian are below parallel and your hands are clasped at the back of your neck for a warrior air. And there is the burpee, which is cardio not muscle-building, NOTHING REQUIRED: You don’t need any stuff to get fit – no weights, no for when you are looking a bit benches, definitely no fancy trainers. Territorial Army. Finally, the plank: toes and elbows and forearms on the floor, t feels like being in prison, resistance bands.) You don’t need everything else off it, nice and because it is like being in any stuff to get fit – no weights, straight and horizontal, a bit prison; and all over the no benches, definitely no fancy like, you know, a plank. This is world, people are asking: trainers. And you can aim high. extremely satisfying, since you how do you stay fit when Theoretically, you could wake can start at 30 seconds and work Iyou’re confined to the house? up in four months’ time looking up in five-second increments This is assuming you don’t like a creature of myth, a man every day. You will, if not see, already have, or want to buy, a or woman who has been cursed then certainly feel the difference load of equipment. (Although if with the upper body of a bullock. it has made to your abs within you do want something cheap That may not be what you want, about a week. and incredibly useful, get some of course, and if you notice it – The Guardian 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, April 8, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY To the brink, and back Patients who contracted coronavirus, teetered on the edge for a while but returned tell their stories to Angie Leventis Lourgos PANGS OF SEPARATION: Michael Bane, 42, at home in Berwyn. He was treated for 10 days at Rush University Medical Center and went into isolation in his basement, separate from his family. s coronavirus sickens shortness of breath. I would be helping. But I’m also making a thousands in Illinois, sweating and have the chills and baby. And I have a child I have to several Chicago-area then I would be soaked; my clothes take care of.” survivors shared the were like I had just come out of the The job requires intimate stories of their illness shower.” proximity to the virus, and she Aand recovery, describing how the She recalled fervently praying, suspects she contracted it while highly contagious new virus has unsure how the new virus might caring for a patient who later tested altered their lives as well as the impact her pregnancy. She was positive for Covid-19. “You’re at a world around them. constantly on guard for cramping huge risk being at the head of the Although their experiences and or spotting. Her obstetrician called bed,” she said. the severity of their symptoms to check in daily — “because of the Theodorou said she always wore vary, all of the recovering patients unknown,” she said. “There’s not a personal protective equipment — cautioned against minimising or lot of documentation of pregnant face masks, gloves — while treating underestimating the threat of the women who have it.” patients, but had not been using the pandemic. After learning she had the virus, full protective gear recommended “I hope this makes it more real Theodorou isolated herself in her for people treating Covid-19 and people take social distancing room at home, unable to hold because it wasn’t known that her seriously,” said one recuperating her 20-month-old son until last patient was infected.