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world news Diamars 11 mei 2021

Greece welcomes young students back to school; courts reopen

ATHENS, Greece (AP) despite new infections and Peloni said Monday.
— Greece reopened pri- COVID-19 deaths remain-
mary schools and junior ing high, straining Greece's The tourism industry is a
highs for in-person classes health system and putting major revenue source for
Monday for the first time intensive care units near ca- Greece, and the govern-
in months, as the country pacity. The country of nearly ment is hoping international
eases coronavirus restric- 11 million people has seen visitors will help bolster an
tions even as daily infec- over 11,000 deaths, and 60 economy still suffering after
tions and deaths remain new deaths were announced a decade-long financial crisis
stubbornly high. Monday. that saw the country's gross
domestic product shrink by a
Greek courts also restarted Domestic travel between re- quarter.
many activities, with civil gions will restart at the end
courts reopening to all cas- of this week, when museums All school grades are now
es and criminal courts now will also reopen, while open- open in Greece. Students
hearing cases involving de- air movie theaters reopen and teachers are required to
fendants in custody and any next week. carry out home COVID-19
cases reaching the statute of the number of people inside the vital summer tourist sea- tests twice a week and up-
limitations next year. each courtroom, forcing au- son. Restaurants, bars and ca- "On May 14, an extremely load the results to be allowed
thorities to adapt. fes opened last week for out- important step will be taken, to attend classes in person.
Long lines developed out- door service for the first time both for society and for the The tests are provided free
side the courthouse in the Greece has been under coro- since November, while retail economy, with the opening of charge and the same re-
northern city of Thessaloniki navirus-related restrictions stores have also reopened on of the tourism sector and quirement has been extended
as lawyers, witnesses, defen- since early November, but an appointment basis. the resumption of domestic to workers in several sectors
dants and court staff arrived. has gradually begun easing regional travel," government that have reopened.
Limits have been placed on the measures as it gears up for The gradual reopening comes spokeswoman Aristotelia

Hindu temple in UAE ships oxygen aid to crisis-hit India

DUBAI, United Arab oxygen and massive contain- focating in India's capital,
Emirates (AP) — As In- ers of compressed oxygen New Delhi, and other cities
dia's government scram- onto a ship, where it will because of the shortage.
bles for supplies of oxygen head to crisis-wracked India.
and other emergency aid The organizers, Indian own- Hindu spiritual leaders,
to control the raging coro- ers of a Dubai helium factory, dressed in saffron robes,
navirus outbreak, donors shifted production to oxygen came to bless the oxygen be-
around the world have when the latest surge in virus fore sending it out, shower-
come to the rescue — in- cases hit India. ing rose petals on the ship-
cluding a Hindu temple in ment and marking the cylin-
the United Arab Emirates. As calls for help back home ders with traditional orange
grew, the factory enlisted dye.
On Monday, volunteers from the help of the main Hindu
the country's Hindu com- temple based in the UAE's The UAE's economy is pow-
munity gathered at the Jebel capital of Abu Dhabi, BAPS ered by millions of foreign
Ali Port, here at the northern Shri Swaminarayan Man- workers from Southeast
end of Dubai, to haul hun- dir, to send oxygen supplies. Asia. Indian citizens make up
dreds of cylinders of liquid COVID-19 patients are suf- nearly 30% of the population.

Japan to purchase antibody cocktail for COVID-19

TOKYO — Japan's gov- it has agreed to purchase produced and marketed by a Japanese drug maker veloped by Roche and a
ernment said Monday that an antibody cocktail to be for COVID-19 treatment Chugai Pharmaceutical U.S. drug maker Regeneron
Co. which has a licensing Pharmaceuticals Inc. was ap-
deal with Roche. proved for emergency use
in the United States for the
Chugai Pharmaceutical con- treatment of high-risk, non-
cluded the agreement with hospitalized patients with
Roche in December for the mild cases. Clinical testing
production and marketing in started in Japan in March and
Japan of the antibody cocktail if approved, it will be a new
for the virus treatment. effective addition to Japan's
COVID-19 treatment, Kato
Chief Cabinet Secretary Kat- said.
sunobu Kato told reporters
Monday that the govern- A cocktail of two virus
ment concluded the agree- neutralizing antibodies ca-
ment with Chugai over the sirivimab and imdevimab are
purchase of enough doses synthetically manufactured
through March 2022 once copies of antibodies that the
the drug, now at final stages body produces after an in-
of clinical testing in Japan, is fection. It was given to U.S.
approved by the health min- President Donald Trump
istry. when he contracted the dis-
ease in October.
The antibody cocktail de-