Initiatives in the world to confront Corona

With the spread of the new Corona virus "Covid-19" in the world and exceeding 100,000 infections, initiatives have been launched in several countries to deal with it, and to facilitate people's lives and help them protect themselves from disease.

In Iran, the Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Javad Azari Jahrami announced that his country will grant a free internet package to subscribers in order to abide by their homes, as part of precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the Corona virus.

In China, the giant oil giant Sinopec - which has been keen to restore customers and help farmers who cannot distribute products due to roadblocks - launched a new plan last month called "touchless" sale of vegetables at 6,000 gas stations in 147 Chinese cities, as consumers choose the goods and pay In exchange for their requests on the Sinopec mobile app, when they leave their homes by car, those in charge of gas stations put vegetables in their car boxes, which eliminates the need to communicate with another person.

The Chinese company Meng New Dairy allows customers to order products such as milk and yogurt online, which can be obtained from their local vending machine.

Lokin Coffee - a Chinese coffee company - offers sterilizers that contain alcohol and handmade soap, as well as caffeinated drinks.

Check in the car
In Groß-Gerau, in the German state of Hesse, anyone who doubts that he or she is infected with the mutated Corona virus can get a medical examination inside his car. He leaves his car.

In South Korea, with the rapid spread of this infection, more cities are setting up test centers for people inside their cars, and the number of these centers has now risen to 48, according to Arirang TV. Lee Jae Joon, the mayor of Goyang, northwest of Seoul, confirmed that these are The initiative "protects the medical staff".

In Japan, to overcome the problem of lack of masks, citizens resorted to innovative ideas for hand-made, and these ideas were widely spread on social media.

In Europe, a European Central Bank spokeswoman said on Sunday that the bank asked its 3,500 employees to work from their homes today, Monday, to test its ability to deal with a closure situation in light of concerns related to the outbreak of the Corona virus.

"The European Central Bank has the necessary equipment to operate remotely on a large scale, and on Monday 9 March it will be a precautionary test for infrastructure and for bank staff if such widespread use of this equipment becomes necessary at some point," the spokeswoman said.

Stanford University
The Stanford University has told its students that starting Monday it will start providing online classes for the rest of the winter due to the spread of the Corona virus.

The prestigious University in Northern California said it expects "the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 to continue to rise in our area and among our university."

She assured that a large group of activities at the university with 16,500 students will be canceled or modified.

Iraq
In Iraq, Iraqi activist Nadia Muhammad launched an initiative to help the poor in Kirkuk tackle the Coronavirus by making masks and distributing them for free, after high prices in the province.

A few hours after her initiative was published on her Facebook page, many young men and women joined her and decided to work with her in the manufacture of masks, which contributed to raising production to more than 350 pieces per day and distributing them to poor neighborhoods and regions.

An Iraqi tailor from Nasiriyah (Dhi Qar Governorate Center, south of the country) volunteered to produce masks and distribute them to those who requested them for free.

Despite its narrow and simple location, in the middle of one of the Nasiriyah markets, Ziyad Al-Jabri, the tailor, is keen on producing around 1500 masks daily and distributing them to citizens for free.

Citizens in Nasiriyah welcomed Al-Jabri's step, describing him as a gentleman, especially in light of a deteriorating economic situation, describing his initiative as a humanitarian stance to protect citizens from a possible disease.

In one of the districts of Erbil governorate in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, dozens of people who quarantined the Corona virus defied dances and networks on fast Kurdish songs.

In Ramallah, Palestine, the Echo Social Center and the "Verify" initiative launched an online campaign to tag "#Harp_Kronona" to deal with media chaos, stop rumors and deal unprofessionally with the crisis in Palestine.

A statement issued by "Echo" and "certainty" stated that this campaign came out of a sense of social responsibility and in light of the circumstances the country is going through.

According to the statement, the campaign aims to combat, monitor and deal with rumors on the basis of societal and national responsibility.

Also in Palestine, it became available to students of science at the Qabatiya Basic School for Boys south of Jenin in the West Bank to follow their daily lessons through Facebook, where their teacher announced the provision of daily video lessons during the compulsory vacation in which Palestinian schools entered for a month to avoid the spread of the Corona virus.