Новости за 14.03.2021

AMMAN — The government’s decision to extend curfew from Saturday through Thursday and reimpose all-day lockdown on Fridays has led to a sharp drop in the economic activity of the apparel sector, with sale volumes declining by 70 per cent, according to a stakeholder.

AMMAN — Head of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Health Ministry Adnan Abbas said that “lack of oxygen” caused the deaths at the New Salt Public Hospital. 

AMMAN — Sixty-one COVID-19 deaths and 4,144 virus cases were recorded in the Kingdom on Saturday, increasing the caseload to 469,000, the government announced.

AL BOU DOR, Iraq — Hundreds of mourners attended funerals in a village north of Iraq's capital Saturday for eight people killed in attacks claimed by the Daesh terror group, an AFP reporter said.

GENEVA — The World Health Organisation said there was no reason to stop using AstraZeneca's COVID-19 jab after several countries suspended rollout over blood clot fears, while the hard-hit United States exceeded 100 million doses of vaccine administered to its people.

TUNIS — Tunisia launched its coronavirus vaccination campaign on Saturday, a month later than planned, with health professionals first in line, AFP correspondents reported.

By Hashem Osseiran
Agence France-Presse

BEIRUT — From videos of deadly air strikes to extremist takeovers, Al Mutez Billah’s YouTube page served as a digital archive of the Syrian war until automated takedown software in 2017 erased it permanently.

The page exhibiting footage that violated YouTube’s community standards could not be restored because Al Mutez Billah, a citizen-journalist, had been executed by the Daesh group three years earlier over his documentation efforts.

LA PAZ — Conservative senator Jeanine Anez was unknown to many Bolivians before she stepped out onto the balcony of the government palace in November 2019, Bible in hand.

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday unveiled a long-promised economic reform package that he hopes will boost the confidence of skittish foreign investors and temper inflation while boosting trade.