As many as 90% of the 183 economies are expected to suffer from falling levels of GDP in 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has triggered the most widespread global economic meltdown since at least 1870 and risks fuelling a dramatic rise in poverty levels around the globe, the World Bank has ...

Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, and with more than 380,000 people dead, the picture we have of Sars-CoV-2 remains opaque and unclear. Thousands of papers and reports have flooded the academic sphere during this period, as scientists have rushed to understand the virus, which, according to the journal Science, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries on Monday to press on with efforts to contain the novel coronavirus, noting the pandemic was worsening globally and had not peaked in central America. More than 136,000 cases were reported worldwide on Sunday, “the most in a single day so far”, WHO ...

Major study of thousands of patients led by University of Oxford shows drug is ineffective Hydroxychloroquine does not work against Covid-19 and should not be given to any more hospital patients around the world, say the leaders of the biggest and best-designed trial of the drug, which experts will hope ...

Wide-scale lockdowns including shop and school closures have reduced COVID-19 transmission rates in Europe enough to control its spread and may have averted more than three million deaths, researchers said on Monday. In a modelling study of lockdown impact in 11 nations, Imperial College London scientists said the draconian steps, ...

The Ministry of Health announced on Monday that 19 new Coronavirus cases were recorded in Lebanon. The ministry added that out of the new cases, 14 were registered among the residents and 5 among the Lebanese returnees. This brings the total number of cases in Lebanon to 1350. LBCI

When it comes to AI, much of the attention has been on deep learning. And for good reason. This part of the AI world has seen great strides, such as with image recognition. But of course, there are other areas of AI that look promising, such as reinforcement learning. Keep in mind that ...

The failure to consider air pollution as a factor in the higher rates of coronavirus deaths among minority ethnic groups is “astonishing” and “wholly irresponsible”, according to critics of a Public Health England review. The PHE report released on Tuesday confirmed the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on people from ethnic ...

The Ministry of Health said on Sunday that 11 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon, bringing the total number of cases in Lebanon to 1331. The ministry added that 9 cases out of the new 11 ones were registered among the residents and 2 infections among the Lebanese returnees. ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, commented via her Twitter account on the sectarian tensions that took place Saturday night in the capital, saying: “Yesterday witnessed a sectarian tautness that brought to mind images of the ominous, dreadful war.” “It is unacceptable to be drawn into any sort of discord,” the Minister ...