Monday, April 20, 2020 Sha’ban 27, 1441 AH Doha today 240 - 280 COVER Deserting WHO STORY US President Donald Trump’s decision to halt funding to the already underfunded world body has drawn flak from all over the world. P4-5 BOLLYWOOD BACK PAGE Film personalities condemn the ‘Focus on strengths; look for ‘witch-hunt’ by Delhi police. opportunities to stay positive’. Page 14 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Monday, April 20, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT SERIES TO BINGE WATCH ON AMAZON PRIME PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.46am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.08am Zuhr (noon) 11.34am Asr (afternoon) 3.04pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.01pm Isha (night) 7.31pm USEFUL NUMBERS 30 Rock and turn around TGS, which for years has been unable to DIRECTION: Tina Fey find the proper audience it deserves. So to do so, he brings CAST: Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan on unhinged, wildly unpredictable star Tracy Jordan (Tracy SYNOPSIS: Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Lemon (Tina Fey) is the Morgan) to turn the series into a ratings hit. But Liz soon finds executive show runner for a late night sketch comedy show out that controlling her oddball writing staff, the NBC page called The Girlie Show, that stars her close friend and major programme, keeping Tracy on a short leash, and getting him drama queen Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski). When GE hires to get along with Jenna proves to be one disaster after another. Emergency 999 a new Executive Vice President for NBC named Jack Donaghy Will TGS ever see true success? And will Liz find the right Worldwide Emergency Number 112 (Alec Baldwin), he decides to take Liz Lemon under his wing partner to get married and start a family? 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Environmental Design and So where do foggy Construction Magazine recently Teyeglasses fit in? put together a handy list of the Since the Centres for Disease best anti-fog sprays for those stuck Control and Prevention began wearing glasses at this moment in recommending that folks wear human history. cloth face masks in public places, A quick word of caution: Be people with glasses have learned careful before putting chemicals the hard way that these masks near your eyes. Defogging your cause their glasses to fog up just glasses isn’t worth causing about every time they exhale. irritations that could affect your While not a major issue, it’s quite vision in more serious ways. annoying. Luckily for the bespectacled A flexible ‘nose’ among us, there are ways to prevent Some masks come with a metal condensation on your glasses while nose clip that allows the wearer to still following the CDC’s guidelines limit the amount of moisture that on how to properly wear face comes in or out of the mask. If masks. If you either have perfect you’re sewing homemade masks, vision or wear contacts, more you can use flexible objects like power to you. For the rest of us, bobby pins, paper clips or pipe here are a few methods to help you cleaners to create a fitted “nose.” maintain a clear view while wearing It’s worth mentioning that they glasses and a face mask. should be fastened tightly to ensure they don’t come out and scratch Soap and water your face. Doctors were on the front lines of this innovation long before the Fold down part of the mask coronavirus pandemic as they wear Though this sounds like the face masks every day. They figured easiest way to mitigate the problem, it out and codified this technique it’s not as simple as it sounds. in a 2011 study published in the CHEMICAL SPRAY: Some chemical sprays stop moisture from collecting on your glasses. Competitive swimmers Folding down the top quarter of Annals of The Royal College of sometimes use similar sprays to prevent foggy goggles in the middle of a race. a face mask provides extra space Surgeons of England. for your breath to escape before “Immediately before wearing it hits your glasses. This method a face mask, wash the spectacles is championed by the Tokyo with soapy water and shake off the Metropolitan Police Department excess,” the study recommends. and has gained traction through “Then let the spectacles air dry or YouTube tutorials like one from C gently dry off the lenses with a soft Channel. tissue before putting them back on. Keep in mind, though, that this Now the spectacle lenses should doesn’t work in masks containing not mist up when the face mask is metal noses and more importantly, worn.” it reduces the area covered by the The soapy water creates a “thin mask. surfactant film” that temporarily prevents the surface tension that Folded tissues causes glasses to fog up from the That same Channel C video breaths directed upward by face also teaches us another way to masks, according to the study. It’s keep glasses from fogging: folding not a permanent solution, however, a tissue into a rectangle and and must be repeated a few times connecting it to the mask so it stays a day. Woodworkers who have on the bridge of your nose. The to wear safety goggles with dust tissue blocks and absorbs some of masks have found that shaving the moisture escaping the mask to cream is also effective in preventing keep lenses clear. condensation on glasses. Keeping the tissue in place can be tricky, and it’s vital to get it Anti-fog spray right the first time so you’re not Some chemical sprays stop constantly touching your face to moisture from collecting on your adjust it. Thin tape – medical tape glasses. Competitive swimmers particularly – could work. If that sometimes use similar sprays to LIMITING THE AMOUNT OF MOISTURE: Some masks come with a metal nose clip that allows the wearer to limit feels uncomfortable, consider one prevent foggy goggles in the middle the amount of moisture that comes in or out of the mask. If you’re sewing homemade masks, you can use flexible of the other options laid out here. of a race. objects like bobby pins, paper clips or pipe cleaners to create a fitted ‘nose.’ – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS 4 GULF TIMES Monday, April 20, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY What is WHO and who’s doing what The badly underfunded WHO acts as a clearing house for investigation, data and technical recommendations on emerging disease threats such as the coronavirus and Ebola, write Peter Beaumont and Sarah Bosely SPOTLIGHT: The World Health Organisation headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. This is the agency that’s looking out for other countries and leading efforts to stop the pandemic. This is exactly the time when they need more funding, not less — Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health, ‘ University of Edinburgh ’ Monday, April 20, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY What is the World Health Organization’s remit? The World Health Organization (WHO) was founded as the UN global health body in 1948 in the aftermath of the Second World War with a mandate to promote global health, protect against infectious disease and to serve the vulnerable. It was inspired by the international sanitary conferences of the 19th century set up to combat communicable diseases such as cholera, yellow fever and plague. Its current programme envisages expanding universal healthcare to a billion more people, protecting another billion from health emergencies and providing a further billion people with better health and well- being.