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Majida El Roumi Returns with New Song


Fri 29 May 2020 | 04:12 PM
Yara Sameh

Lebanese soprano Majida El Roumi has given fans a sneak peek into her new song, “Ghano bi kol al lahjat” (Sing in all languages).

The song is written by El Roumi, and composed and distributed by Michel Fadel.

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Majida El Roumi new music 

Lebanese soprano's new music comes within the framework of the efforts Egyptian and Arab performers and musicians to uplift the people spirits amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Many prominent performers from the Arab world organize online concerts and release new songs to entertain billions isolated inside their homes to uplift their spirits with music during the country’s battle against coronavirus pandemic, which includes self-quarantine to stem its spread of the coronavirus.

The shows received positive response and support from the public, which encouraged more performers to repeat the experience.

Majida El Roumi

The novel coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China, and has infected more than one million people and killed over 234,139 worldwide. It also hit several celebrities and top political figures around the world.

The virus is a new member of the Coronaviruses group, which was never identified in humans. The viruses’ family also includes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV), which cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases.

Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people. Humans and animals such as mammals and birds can be affected by the disease.

The name coronavirus is derived from the Latin corona, meaning “crown” or “halo”.

World Health Organization

On February 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-19, taken from the words “corona”, “virus” and “disease”.

In December 2019, an outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China. On 31 December 2019, the outbreak was traced to a novel strain of coronavirus, which was given the interim name 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization (WHO), it was later renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.

On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 800,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

However, it announced the novel COVID-19 is still “controllable”.

“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.

“Now, COVID-19 can be categorized as a pandemic… we have never seen a pandemic spread due to the coronavirus,” Adhanom added.

“Describing the situation as a pandemic does not change the assessment of the threat posed by the Coronavirus,” the WHO director-general stressed.

Transmission of viruses between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.

Coronavirus can also be transmitted by coming into contact with something an infected person has touched and then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes.

It is known that older people appear to be more vulnerable to the effects of the emerging virus.

The virus caused complete paralysis in all activities and events with large gatherings worldwide due to concerns over the spread of the virus.

People across the globe partake in self-isolation for 14 days as an effective precautionary measure to protect those around them and themselves from contracting COVID-19.

China reports no new Coronavirus cases

On May 28, China’s National Health Commission reported no new confirmed cases of Coronavirus (Covid-19) on the mainland on Thursday.

This is the second time that China reports no new cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in Wuhan late last year.

The commission said in a statement today, Friday, that this compared to two new cases recorded on the previous day. It also reported five new asymptomatic coronavirus cases on Thursday.