Corona is expanding Arab and accelerating outside China

In Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Tunisia, it was announced that the first cases of coronavirus were recorded, thereby spreading the disease in the Arab world, while the disease was spreading outside China faster than it was spreading inside it.

The Saudi authorities announced today, Monday, the injury of a Saudi citizen to a citizen who returned to the Kingdom from Iran via Bahrain.

In Jordan, the Jordanian Minister of Health, Saad Jaber, announced the registration of the first infection of a Jordanian citizen who returned to the country in the middle of last month from Italy, which is the most affected by the disease in Europe.

For his part, Tunisian Health Minister Abdel-Latif El-Makki announced today the registration of the first injury in the country to a Tunisian who returned from Italy. Al-Makki said that the injured man came to Tunisia on a ship carrying 254 passengers, and all of them were quarantined.

Algeria has reported three injuries, while Egypt has confirmed that it has so far detected two injuries for foreigners.

At the level of the Middle East and North Africa, the bulk of injuries to people were either in Iran or Italy.

Additional cases
Today, the Qatari Ministry of Health announced the discovery of four new cases belonging to Qatari citizens and two domestic workers who were traveling with them, which raises the total number of confirmed injuries to seven cases.

It is noteworthy that all the injured are among those evacuated on the 27th of last month from Iran on a Qatar Airways plane.

In Kuwait, ten new cases of Coronavirus were detected, bringing the total to 56, all of them from Iran.

In Lebanon, three new cases of the virus were recorded, bringing the total number to 13, and most of these cases are linked to an outbreak in Iran.

In Iran, which is witnessing an accelerating and alarming spread of the Corona virus despite the announced preventive measures, which include the suspension of studies in universities, in the past twenty-four hours, 12 new deaths were recorded, bringing the total deaths to 66, and another 523 cases, bringing the total to 1,501 patients.

Among those who died in the last hours was a member of the Expediency Council, Muhammad Mir Mohammadi, who died in a hospital dedicated to treating people living with HIV in the north of the country.

In Iraq, where the infection was transmitted from neighboring Iran, the number of people infected with the virus increased to 26, while more than a thousand people were placed under quarantine in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

France, Britain and Germany announced today in a joint statement that they have offered to provide Iran with $ 5.6 million worth of medical supplies worth $ 5.6 million to help it contain the disease. This assistance will be provided through the World Health Organization and other international agencies.

A WHO team also arrived in Tehran aboard a plane carrying medical supplies.

Outside China
The World Health Organization announced today that corona infections outside China exceeded those nine times within 24 hours.

The director of the organization, Tedros Adhanum Giberisos, told reporters in Geneva that during the past 24 hours, there were nine times more injuries outside China than injuries recorded in the same period in China.

The announcement comes as a decline in the number of victims of the disease in China, and the recovery of thousands of people infected with it in several countries, hope to contain the virus.

The death toll from the virus exceeded three thousand yesterday, while the disease continues to spread throughout the world, especially in Italy, South Korea and Iran, where a significant increase in the number of infections is recorded.

France announced today the death of two infected people, bringing to four the number of people who died from the virus. France had taken measures including imposing restrictions on public gatherings, canceling sports demonstrations, and closing the Louvre Museum in Paris.

In Italy, the number of deaths jumped to 52 after the death of 18 patients, and the number of injuries increased by 300, to exceed two thousand cases. In turn, Norway announced a swelling of the disease on its soil to 25 infected people.

In China, the authorities announced the registration of 42 new deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 2912 deaths, while 202 new cases were recorded, bringing the number of injuries to 80,26 cases.

Informed sources said that Beijing and Tokyo agreed to postpone a scheduled visit of Chinese President Xi Jiping to Japan next month due to the high number of virus victims in the two countries.

In the context, Switzerland announced today the postponement of the Football League matches until March 23, for fear of spreading a virus that has spread so far in 62 countries, including many European countries.