China to lift travel curbs on Hubei province, including Wuhan

People stand in a spaced line to buy pork at the entrance gate of a closed residential community in Wuhan. (AP pic) BEIJING: China announced Tuesday that a lockdown would be lifted on more than 50 million people in central Hubei province where the coronavirus first emerged late last year. But fears rose over a second […]

Hand-washing: A luxury millions of Yemenis can’t afford

People load up on water from a cistern at a makeshift camp for displaced Yemenis in the northern Hajjah province. (AFP pic) SANA’A: Hand-washing to combat the spread of Covid-19 is the order of the day, but it’s an unaffordable luxury for millions in war-ravaged Yemen where clean water is dangerously scarce. Yemen’s broken healthcare […]