49 deaths in Italy and 12 injuries in Egypt .. Corona afflicts more than one hundred thousand people in 91 countries

The number of newly infected Coronavirus in the world has reached more than one hundred thousand people, including about 3400 deaths in 91 countries and regions, according to a toll compiled by Agence France-Presse according to official sources Friday.

China (without Hong Kong and Macau) - where the epidemic first appeared in late December - counted 80,552 cases, including 3,042 deaths. On Friday, the authorities announced 143 new cases and thirty deaths.

The most affected countries after China are South Korea (6,284 cases, including 196 new cases, 42 deaths), Iran (4,747 cases, including 1234 new cases, 124 deaths), Italy (49 new deaths from the Corona virus, which raises the toll to 197) and France (577 cases, including two hundred cases New and nine deaths).

Returning to the most infected country in Europe (Italy), the number of HIV infections reached 4,636, up from 3,858 on Thursday.

Disrupt official working hours
In Iraq, the authorities decided to suspend official working hours in government institutions until the 15th of this month, and prohibited religious gatherings.

Baghdad also announced that it had stopped receiving arrivals from France and Spain, in addition to stopping trade exchanges with Iran and Kuwait.

On the other hand, health authorities in Gansu, China, said this evening that the northwestern region confirmed 17 new cases of coronavirus for people coming from Iran, bringing the total number of cases from Iran to 28.

The health committee in Gansu said in a statement on its website that the new injured were among the passengers subject to quarantine after their arrival in Lanzhou, the provincial capital, on commercial flights coming from Iran between the second and fifth of March.

In Egypt, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization announced today, Friday, that 12 cases of corona virus were found on a Nile cruise ship in the south of the country.

HIV-positive cases do not show symptoms of the disease, such as fever. No further details about the mentioned cases were provided by the WHO.

Carriers of the virus
Maria Van Kerkhof, an epidemiologist for global health, said on Thursday that the organization does not consider transmission of the disease through HIV carriers a major factor in its spread.

"We know that this is possible, but we do not think it is a major factor for transmission," she said in Geneva.

She also said - in a joint statement with the Egyptian Ministry of Health - that the Nile cruise ship was heading from Aswan to Luxor, in the south of the country. It was not clear how many people were on board at the time.

The joint statement stated that 12 cases that were discovered were confirmed to have resulted from an American-Taiwanese infection who was on board the ship with the virus after returning to her country.

The statement added that it is believed that this tourist transmitted the infection to others.

The Ministry of Health has returned to say that the infected cases will be transferred to a quarantine facility, and all contacts with them will be subjected to a 14-day quarantine.