Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Shawwal 24, 1441 AH Doha today: 330 - 450 The future Space exploration’s next frontier: Remote-controlled robonauts. P4-5 COVER STORY HOLLYWOOD BACK PAGE White celebs rush to Artists laud Qatar’s resilience amplify Black Lives Matter. during unjust blockade. Page 15 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, June 16, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT SERIES TO BINGE WATCH ON AMAZON PRIME PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.12am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.45am Zuhr (noon) 11.36am Asr (afternoon) 2.59pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.27pm Isha (night) 7.57pm USEFUL NUMBERS 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 Modern Love been a date. An unconventional new family. 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Tuesday, June 16, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 BODY & MIND COMMUNITY Covid-19 safety tips for commuters Many commuters are back on the road as Covid-19 restrictions are lifting across the US and businesses are reopening What about public transportation, such as trains and buses? When taking public transportation, people should wear masks and avoid touching their face with their hands. It’s very important to use alcohol hand gel to decrease the risk of infection. It is well-known that people can terminate or contaminate their masks with their hands. Therefore, hand hygiene needs to be maintained. Use hand sanitiser with at least 60% alcohol and then wash your hands with soap and water when you arrive at your destination. Other tips include: Consider travelling during non-peak hours when there are likely to be fewer people, enter and exit buses through rear entry doors if possible and use touch-free payment methods when available. Should commuters wear gloves while using public transportation? Commuters don’t need to wear gloves. Gloves will only cause people to have a sense of false security as the gloves can be contaminated just like the hands. For prolonged public transportation, if possible avoid PROTECTIVE MEASURES: Travellers should wear a cloth mask when carpooling with people who are not from the immediate family. If passengers are not in eating so that you don’t have to the same household, try to ride with the same people on a regular basis. take off your mask. However, if the mask will be taken off for eating or drinking on a tray attached to the or commuters using seat, then carrying disinfectant public transportation, wipes may be helpful. However, car sharing services even in that scenario hand hygiene and carpooling, close is the most important component. proximity to fellow The Centres for Disease Fcommuters may raise concerns Control and Prevention (CDC) about safety and risk of infection. recommends practising good hand That’s because Covid-19 is hygiene and respiratory etiquette thought to spread mainly from before using any and all modes of person-to-person through transportation: droplets produced when an 1. Before you leave, wash your infected person sneezes, coughs, hands with soap and water for or talks. at least 20 seconds or use hand “It’s important for people to sanitiser with at least 60% alcohol. remember that Covid-19 is still 2. Once you reach your ongoing in the communities,” says destination, wash your hands again Dr Abinash Virk, a Mayo Clinic with soap and water for at least 20 infectious diseases physician. seconds or use hand sanitiser with “Even more important for people at least 60% alcohol as soon as is to remember that Covid-19 possible upon arrival. affects older people and immune 3. Avoid touching your eyes, compromised people much more nose, and mouth with unwashed severely. So, travellers should hands. think of the family and friends 4. Cover your coughs and sneezes to whom they may potentially with a tissue or use the inside of transmit this infection.” UPON ARRIVAL: Once you reach your destination, wash your hands again with soap and water for at least 20 your elbow. Throw used tissues Dr Virk offers some suggestions seconds or use hand sanitiser with at least 60% alcohol as soon as possible upon arrival. in the trash and wash your hands on safety measures you can take if immediately with soap and water you are travelling with others or people who are not from the data that air conditioning can the vehicle, when possible and for at least 20 seconds or use hand using public transportation. immediate family. If passengers contribute to causing infection. physically distance from each sanitiser with at least 60% alcohol. are not in the same household, try Avoid offering or sharing water other when outside the vehicle. “And please remember if you What are some Covid-19 to ride with the same people on a bottles, snacks or other items. If using your own car or vehicle, are not feeling well, it’s important safety tips for carpooling? regular basis. Each passenger should handle clean and disinfect high-touch to stay home and not use public Travellers should wear a cloth It’s is fine to travel in air- their own bags and belongings. surfaces such as door handles, arm transportation,” says Dr Virk – mask when carpooling with conditioned car. There’s no known Limit close contact inside rests, steering wheel and seat belts. Mayo Clinic News Network/TNS 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, June 16, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Calling robonaut There’s a growing recognition of the need to keep spending under control, even as space-exploration projects grow increasingly complex. That’s where avatar technologies come in, write Shiho Takezawa and Hiromi Horie Avatar technologies will advance our opportunity for research in space tremendously. With the right technologies we can actually have the best of both worlds of robots and human curiosity, intelligence and interactivity. — Anousheh Ansari, first Muslim ‘ woman to go into space ’ Tuesday, June 16, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY s Japan’s second female astronaut to fly up By eliminating in the Space Shuttle the need for air, Discovery, Naoko Yamazaki didn’t expect heating, food Ato spend a quarter of her time dusting, feeding mice and doing and water that other menial jobs. It can cost more than $430 keeps humans million a year to keep an astronaut alive, space in orbit, according to 3-year-old startup called Gitai Inc. It’s only developers possible to keep humans alive in outer space because of the money can reduce the and effort poured into ensuring their safety. One way to bring frequency of down the cost and risks is to send people-ferrying an avatar — a remotely controlled robot. rocket launches “There’s a need for robots that can help us,” Yamazaki, 49, said. and instead “Eventually, we should be able to do send up more those tasks remotely or have them take over altogether.” avatars that can As Nasa opens up the International Space Station to do spacewalks private businesses and embarks on the Artemis mission to send all the time — astronauts back to the moon, INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION: Astronaut Ron Garan took this image during the spacewalk conducted on unlike humans there’s a growing recognition of July 12, 2011. It shows the International Space Station with Space Shuttle Atlantis docked on the right and a Russian the need to keep spending under Soyuz on the far left. In the foreground is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment installed during the — and assemble control, even as space-exploration STS-134 mission. AMS is a state-of-the-art particle physics detector designed to use the unique environment of space to projects grow increasingly complex. advance knowledge of the universe and lead to the understanding of the universe’s origin by searching for antimatter space stations, That’s where avatar technologies and dark matter, and measuring cosmic rays.