olympics Pages 15 & 16 THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT markets Established in 1977 / www.arabtimesonline.com Page 9 SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 2021 / ZUL-HIJJAH 29, 1442 AH emergency number 112 NO. 17757 16 PAGES 150 FILS ‘Grace’ at end despite airport closures Firm ... firm Opinion Day by Day KUWAIT CITY, Aug THE United States has classi- 7: The Minister of In- fied Kuwait as a ‘coronavirus Tunisia’s Brotherhood, end of centennial terrorism high-risk’ country although we terior, Sheikh Thamer use vaccines manufactured Al-Ali, will not grant by countries insisted by our new grace period for By Ahmed Al-Jarallah government – the government led by its ‘general’ and Minis- expatriates to leave Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times ter of Health. the country or correct IT was not easy to dismantle the WHO nixes push against Lab COVID So, according to America their status – expatri- dominance of the Muslim Brother- we are a plague country. hood Group in Tunisia. However, BEIJING, Aug 7, (AP): China cannot accept the World Health so we can understand to prevent the next pandemic. This is about Soon this American classifica- ates who entered Ku- tion will be followed by other the attempt of President Qais Saied Organization’s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins saving lives in the future, and it’s not a time to be stonewalling.” countries, while our minister wait on visas (visit and and the forces opposed to the “En- of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of says the Director-General of commercial) before the nahda” movement opened the door Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of the National Health Commis- WHO, acknowledged last week that there had been a “prema- the World Health Organization outbreak of the Co- to isolate it after its widespread sion, said he was “rather taken aback” that the plan includes fur- ture push” after the first phase of the study to rule out the theory was impressed by measures corruption that plunged this small ther investigation of the theory that the virus might have leaked that the virus might have escaped from a Chinese government taken by us, of course, after vid-19 pandemic and and peaceful Maghreb country into from a Chinese lab. lab in Wuhan, the city where the disease was first detected in he was served a butterfish were unable to leave conflicts unable to bear. He dismissed the lab leak idea as a rumor that runs counter to late 2019. (Zubaidi) meal at the minis- due to certain condi- Hence, the downsizing of the common sense and science. Most experts don’t think a lab leak is the likely cause. The ter’s house. group is considered to be the last “It is impossible for us to accept such an origin-tracing plan,” question is whether the possibility is so remote that it should be Oh Prime Minister, the tions imposed by the pain caused by the international he said at a news conference called to address the COVID-19 dropped, or whether it merits further study. Kuwaiti procedures are not pandemic, reports Al- organization, and on the mother healthy but confusing. God origins issue. The first phase was conducted earlier this year by an inter- help us. We only say: “Lord, Anba daily quoting re- group, which stretches throughout The search for where the virus came from has become a dip- national team of scientists who came to Wuhan to work with the Arab world. we have wronged ourselves, liable sources. lomatic issue that has fueled China’s deteriorating relations with their Chinese counterparts. The team was accused of bowing to and you are our Excellent This started with Egypt, which the U.S. and many American allies. The U.S. and others say that demands from the Chinese side after it initially indicated that The sources said these suffered for 90 years from the ter- Support and the Excellent China has not been transparent about what happened in the early further study wasn’t necessary. Helper.” people have refused to leave rorism of the Muslim Brotherhood for more than a year, despite Group and its relentless efforts to days of the pandemic. China accuses critics of seeking to blame Zeng said the Wuhan lab has no virus that can directly infect … Yet, tomorrow is just an- it for the pandemic and politicizing an issue that should be left humans and noted that the WHO team concluded that a lab leak other day. the issuance of several dead- frame society within visions dating Zahed Matar back to the Middle Ages. It then to scientists. was highly unlikely. He added that speculation that staff and lines and grace periods and went through other Arab countries The Biden administration in a statement Thursday criticized graduate students at the lab had been infected and might have the opening of the airport for and several Gulf countries where China’s rejection of the WHO’s plan for the second phase of a started the spread of the virus in the city was untrue. those wishing to travel over it was able to infiltrate. It sought study into the origins of COVID-19. Yuan Zhiming, the director of the biosafety lab at the Wuhan the past months. to show its followers that they are “We are deeply disappointed. Their position is irresponsible Institute of Virology, said they had not stored or studied the new Newswatch The source told the daily the the bearers of the keys to heaven and, frankly, dangerous,” the White House said. “Alongside other coronavirus before the outbreak. “I want to emphasize that .... the second article of the ministerial for the rulers who are approached member states around the world, we continue to call for China to Wuhan Institute of Virology has never designed, made or leaked decision which was issued last by them with an elusive religious provide the needed access to data and samples. And this is critical the novel coronavirus,” he said. KUWAIT CITY: The Ministry of June will be applied which states discourse, and to empower their Finance said Saturday the budget that violators who did not ap- followers from the reins of institu- defi cit hit KD 10.8 billion (nearly ply to amend the status or opted tions. USD 35.5 billion) in the fi scal to leave the country during the They claimed that those who year ending March 31. mentioned period will be sub- are in their favor will enter their The fi gure refl ects an increase jected to prescribed penalties. “Paradise”, and those who refuse by 68 174.8 percent compared to Legally, the violator will not to obey them will be dismissed and last year, according to a ministry be granted a residence permit, excommunicated, let alone being press release. will be deported from the country damned. Oil revenues in the last fi scal and not allowed to return. This is Since 1928, the group has used year stood at KD 8.790 billion in addition to obliging the viola- (USD 28.9 billion); a 42.8-percent tors to pay the fi nes for the period terrorism, assassination and sabo- decline from the previous year, tage as a method to achieve its they have been illegally staying while non-oil revenues declined in the country one dinar for each objectives. It sought to control by 6.5 percent to KD 1.730 billion education and adapt the curriculum day of stay from the last day (some USD 5.6 billion). (KUNA) given for the violators to amend according to its puritanical vision, ❑ ❑ ❑ as was the case in Saud Arabia, their status. Kuwait, and other Gulf curricula KUWAIT CITY: Minister of For- Former Deputy Prime Minister when it enabled the group’s mem- eign Affairs and Minister of State and Minister of Interior Anas Al- bers to teach in those countries, for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr. Saleh and the current minister, where they adopted a curriculum Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Sheikh Thamer Al-Ali – based that has nothing to do with true Al-Sabah congratulated Hans on recommendations by the Un- religion. Grundberg on his appointment as dersecretary of the Ministry of Given that money is power, a the UN Secretary General’s Spe- Interior, Lieutenant-General Es- cial Envoy to Yemen. sam Al-Nahham – had issued hu- team of the members worked on Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Al-Nasser preparing false frameworks for manitarian decisions consistent expressed, during a phone call on with the disruption of air traffi c the concept of Islamic econom- Saturday, sincere wishes of suc- ics, through obscene financial in- and the suspension of businesses. cess to Grundberg upon assum- The source reiterated the com- stitutions with its prestige under ing such important position. the title of profit-sharing, and the He reiterated the State of Ku- mitment of the residence affairs Egyptian “Al Rayan” as a model, wait’s principled an unwavering sector to implement the instruc- which helped develop its wealth to commitment to Yemen’s unity, tions of Minister Al-Ali and spend on its plans in several Arab stability and security, as well as Undersecretary of the Ministry and Islamic countries. support to all efforts aimed at to apply the law on all violators, The multi-billion scandal, which reaching a peaceful solution to the especially since ample time was was obtained scandalously by the crisis. (KUNA) given to the violators to benefi t followers of the group in Tunisia, In this image provided by Maxar Technologies, the oil tanker Mercer Street is seen off the coast of Fujairah, United Arab Emir- ❑ ❑ ❑ from the last deadline.