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RABAT, May 4 (NNN-WAM) – The United Arab Emirates’ Sharjah Library, allowed access to its more than six million e-books and digital knowledge resources for free, said a statement on Sunday.

The statement, announced by the Rabat-based Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ICESCO), said, the initiative came, in a bid to enrich the contents of “ICESCO Digital Home” and “Distance Culture” initiatives, and to support the efforts, to limit the impact of COVID-19 on the educational, scientific and cultural fields.

Dubai; 03 May 2020 (UMM):  The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has provided medical aid to India to boost the country's efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. A plane carrying seven tonnes of medical supplies from UAE landed in India on Saturday.

The aid will assist some 7,000 medical professionals as they work to fight the infection.

3 May 2020; MEMO: Malls in the United Arab Emirates’ capital Abu Dhabi began reopening to a restricted number of customers this weekend as the UAE eases lockdown measures imposed more than a month ago to combat the novel coronavirus, reports Reuters.

Three Abu Dhabi malls reopened on Saturday at 30% customer capacity after adopting safety measures, including installing thermal inspection devices, the government media office tweeted and Sharjah emirate said it would reopen malls on Sunday.

Abu Dhabi; 03 May 2020 (UMM):  A patent has been granted by UAE’s Ministry of Economy for an innovative and promising treatment for Covid-19 using stem cells.

According to Khaleej Times, the treatment was developed by a team of doctors and researchers at the Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center, ADSCC, and involves extracting stem cells from the patient's own blood and reintroducing them after activating them.

ABU DHABI, May 2 (NNN-WAM) – Yas Mall, on Yas Island, and Al Jimi Mall, in Al Ain, will be the first in the emirate to reopen – but with measures in place, to protect shoppers from the spread of Covid-19.

Opening hours during Ramadan will be 12.00 pm to 9.00 pm, to avoid overlapping with disinfection hours that last from 10.00 pm to 6.00 am. Supermarkets and pharmacies – which can be visited in cases of absolute necessity during the disinfection period – will open from 9.00 am to midnight.

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates called on Thursday on all Libyan parties to commit to the U.N.-supervised political process to end the war, while at the same time saluting the eastern Libya based-army led by general Khalifa Haftar.

The UAE statement did not comment directly on Haftar’s declaration on Monday that his army would take power, ripping up a 2015 political agreement that has been the basis for all international peacemaking efforts.

ABU DHABI, Apr 30 (NNN-WAM) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE), yesterday, sent an aid plane, containing seven metric tonnes of medical supplies to the Philippines, to bolster the country’s efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19.

The aid will assist approximately 7,000 medical professionals, as they work to contain the virus.

ABU DHABI, Apr 28 (NNN-WAM) – Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Hishamuddin Hussein, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, today discussed, in a Video Conference call, ties of friendship and joint cooperation between the UAE and Malaysia.

Sheikh Abdullah extended greetings on the occasion of the Holy Month of Ramadan to the King of Malaysia, Al-Sultan Abdullah ibni Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah, Hishamuddin and to the people of Malaysia.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In a Dubai industrial park, workers weld, drill and build what one entrepreneur sees as key to the near future of this desert city-state amid the coronavirus pandemic: disinfection gates.

Husam Zammar’s company builds such gates for government and commercial clients. He believes the new safety measures will find wide acceptance, just as metal detectors did after the 9/11 terror attacks. “If we consider two people, one has a knife and one has coronavirus, the second one is a hundred times dangerous than the first one,” he said.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s state grain buyer SAGO on Monday said it bought 60,000 tonnes of Ukraine wheat from investment firm SALIC, marking its first purchase from agricultural investments overseas aimed at enhancing the country’s food security.

The Ukraine wheat cargo was bought at $248 a tonne, after the kingdom asked Saudi private investors with farmland overseas on April 6 to supply it with around 10% of its local needs this year.

The Saudi call comes as regional food importers scramble to beef up reserves as coronavirus lockdowns up-ended supply chains.