Top stories of the day: Emirates denies rumours of staff committing suicide; 30% of Sharjah govt employees to return to work on Sunday; US tops 2m coronavirus cases

Top stories of the day: Emirates denies rumours of staff committing suicide; 30% of Sharjah govt employees to return to work on Sunday; US tops 2m coronavirus cases

Is a digest of some of the top stories over the past 24 hours.. Around 30 per cent of the Sharjah government employees will resume work from offices on Sunday, the Sharjah Human Resources Directorate has announced.. Fake news: Emirates denies rumours of staff committing suicide Dubai's Emirates airline on Thursday rubbished rumours that five of its employees have committed suicide.. Reacting to a post on Twitter, the airline said: "We can confirm that the news is untrue and request not to spread rumours.". Saudi Arabia ranks number 15 on the list, followed by Kuwait at 21, Bahrain at 23 and Oman at 33.. The group has produced a 250-page dossier in which it assesses and ranks 100 countries according to their response to the pandemic.. The study involved more than 750,000 participants, including 10,000 who reported having Covid-19, following which it was found that people with O-type blood were between 13 and 26 per cent less likely to test positive.. The study found 1.3 per cent with type O blood tested positive while 1.4 per cent with type A blood and 1.5 per cent of people with type B or AB blood had the disease Ajman's corniche, Zorah beaches