China has announced the lowest daily death toll from cases of coronavirus infection in a month. The Chinese foreign minister said that his country’s efforts to contain the Corona virus are succeeding, while new infections have been recorded in South Korea and Iran.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced Thursday that his country's efforts to contain the emerging corona virus "succeed", stressing that the decline in the number of new infections in China is due to "coercive measures" by the authorities to contain the epidemic.

"China not only protects its people, but the rest of the world," Wang told his Southeast Asian counterparts at a summit in Vientiane Plus, pointing to a significant decline in the number of new cases inside China as a result of the epidemic called Covid-19.

The summit, hastily called by the ASEAN countries, comes at a time when the region, which depends on the flow of Chinese goods and tourists, is facing a significant decline in the wake of restrictions on transport in China. A similar summit was held in 2003 following the outbreak of the SARS virus.

The number of deaths due to infection with the virus in China rose to 2118 people, after the country recorded 114 new deaths during the past 24 hours. The total confirmed cases increased to nearly 75,000. The authorities confirmed that about 1,780 people were recovered and left the hospitals.

And Chinese health officials believe that these are indicators of a slowdown in the spread of the Corona virus, as for the first time in weeks, it records fewer than 350 new cases in Hubei province within one day.

With signs of stabilization in the death toll and infection with the Coronavirus, some regions in China such as Zhejiang Province have begun to reopen highways and access points to the city. While the major companies and factories in the region have returned to resume their work, while adhering to the preventive measures.

Today, Hubei province asked companies to continue to suspend work until March 11 due to the spread of the Coronavirus, saying that institutions working to combat or prevent disease or provide public services are necessary and only they are excluded from it.

The provincial government, at its expense on the Weibo social media site, also said that schools would remain closed in a new extension of the suspension of work previously scheduled until February 21.

Korea
Dozens of new cases of coronavirus were discovered in South Korea, while the country declared its first death from the virus on Thursday.

South Korea confirmed its first death from HIV infection hours after the mayor of Daegu, the country's fourth largest city, appealed to residents not to leave after discovering 53 new cases, most of them related to a 61-year-old woman who attended a mass in a church and was found to have the disease. .

The city’s commercial centers and cinemas, home to 2.5 million people, were empty of people, and downtown streets seemed deserted, usually crowded.

Kwon Yong-jin, the mayor, asked residents not to leave, as officials said that at least 90 of the more than 1,000 people attending the mass in the church showed symptoms of the infection, which was described by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in South Korea as "a widespread occurrence". Large".

Japan announced the death of two elderly passengers on the quarantined Diamond Princess ship off the coast of the Japanese port of Yokohama, which recorded the largest number of mass infections with the virus outside the mainland.

Suspension
The Iranian Student News Agency said on Thursday that health officials in the country called for the suspension of all religious gatherings in the city of Qom, after two other people were confirmed infected with the Corona virus in the city where two people died of the virus this week.

In total, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health said that three other people were found to be infected with the virus.

"Two tests showed they were in Qom and one in Arak, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Iran to five," Kyanosh Jahanpur said on Twitter.

The agency quoted Jahanpur as saying that all the patients are Iranian, and the injured person in the central city of Arak is a doctor from Qom.

Jahanpur said that health officials called for the suspension of all religious gatherings in the city of Qom, of religious importance to the Shiites, which is located about 120 km south of the capital, Tehran.

On Wednesday, the president of the University of Medical Sciences said in Qom that two Iranians had died in the hospital after they were confirmed to have been infected.

losses
French-Dutch aviation group Air France-KLM announced Thursday that the new Corona virus had hit its 2020 revenues, and separately disclosed that its 2019 earnings had declined.

"Assuming the gradual (full) resumption of operations from April, the blow from the Covid-19 pandemic to operating revenue is estimated at between 150 million to 200 million euros between February and April," the group said in a statement.

Since the beginning of the year, the outbreak of the Corona virus has forced major airlines, including British Airways, American Airlines, Air Canada, Air France-KLM, Lufthansa, United, Qantas and Delta, to suspend thousands of flights to China.

The crisis has caused a total decline in the revenues of airlines in the world by between four and five billion dollars, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization last week.