Today, Arab and Western countries announced further easing of precautionary measures to confront the emerging coronavirus pandemic, while other countries preferred to extend isolation measures to control the disease.
Today, the Moroccan authorities decided to resume domestic flights starting next Thursday, as part of measures to reduce the declared state of health emergency to counter the virus.
The Rabat authorities said earlier today that they will reduce further public isolation measures imposed on the services sector as of June 24, adding that they will allow the resumption of travel between cities, including flights and railways.
As of 9042, Morocco had recorded the virus, including 213 deaths, and 7999 recovered.
In the Emirates, the government of the Emirate of Dubai said today that it will allow Emiratis and foreign residents to travel abroad starting on Tuesday, and that it will start receiving tourists and general visitors starting from July 7, and will allow residents of owners of residence permits issued from the emirate to return starting from Monday.
The emirate depends on its tourism and trade sectors.
The return of tourists and visitors to Dubai will be conditional upon submitting certificates proving that they have recently undergone the detection of Corona virus, that they are free of the virus or undergo checks upon their arrival at Dubai airports.
The UAE recorded approximately 46,000 pandemic cases, including 302 deaths, and 32,415 cases recovered.
Britain, Spain
and Britain. Today, London City airport is awaiting the reception of its first flights in nearly 3 months, after London took an additional step towards fully lifting the closure imposed to contain the virus as of 4 July.
The first flights allowed will be internal due to the restrictions imposed on international travel, and international flights will be limited to limited destinations in the first weeks of the expected easing.
Britain recorded 42,589 deaths with Covid-19, which is the highest death toll in Europe, and the third in the world after the United States and Brazil, but health sector officials in Britain lowered the alert level to the third degree out of 5, in a sign that the government should take an approach More business minded.
And in Spain, the authorities finally lifted on Sunday the long emergency it imposed to curb one of the worst outbreaks of the Corona virus in Europe, and the country recorded more than 28,000 deaths out of more than 245,000 infections.
After 14 weeks at home, Spanish citizens will be able to travel all over the country outside the province in which they live.
And tourists from the Schengen countries can enter the country from Sunday, while allowing travelers from any other place to return as of early July next, and this is considered a major step for Spain, where tourism is a major economic sector in it, and it constitutes more than 12% of GDP Total.
The Washington Post revealed that Iraqi hospitals, in light of the "Corona" virus crisis, have become "a pandemic",
testimonies of Iraqi doctors who were infected with the virus, and that some of them transmitted the infection to his family,
meaning one visit to hospitals that will guarantee you the virus!
Will these reports be discredited or considered to denigrate Iraq, or will they be taken seriously?
- Shaho Al-Qaradaghi (@shahokurdy) June 21, 2020
Extension in Iraq
In return, Iraq today extended the suspension of domestic and foreign flights until July 1, in an effort to obtain a longer period to contain the disease, which has no treatment or vaccine until now.
The Director General of the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority, Dureid Yahya, said in a statement that emergency flights, medical evacuation, air cargo flights and flights crossing Iraqi airspace will remain exempt from the suspension of flights.
Iraq decided last March to suspend flights due to the Coruna outbreak, and the Iraqi authorities extended the suspension more than once.
The current flight ban in the country was supposed to end later this week.
As of Sunday evening, the total number of people infected with Coronavirus around Iraq had reached 30,868, of whom 1,100 had died, and 13,935 had recovered, according to the Ministry of Health.
The Health Committee of the Iraqi Parliament said today that the numbers of Corona virus infections exceeded the capacity of the Ministry of Health in its logistical, financial and human aspects.
The Parliamentary Committee indicated that it had monitored observations that may be one of the reasons for the deterioration of the pandemic, and will soon present it to Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi.
In a related context, the governorates of Basra and Maysan, southern Iraq, decided to impose a comprehensive curfew as part of the measures to contain Corona, and the ban will continue in Basra from Tuesday to July 1, and in Maysan from Monday until further notice.
The Chinese capital and
in China the cradle of the virus, the authorities in Beijing are rushing to subject more residents of the capital to testing to contain new spots of the virus, after scores of new infections were recorded in the past days, and today 22 new cases of Corona virus are recorded.
The capital authorities say they have the capacity to conduct nearly a million exams daily.
On Sunday, China banned the import of frozen chicken produced by the US "Tyson Foods" company, and ordered the closure of a Pepsi factory in Beijing, as part of a campaign to contain the outbreak of the disease through foodstuffs that might transmit the virus, which the authorities recently monitored new foci.
The Chinese authorities also ordered the American "PepsiCo" company for food and beverages to close one of its factories in Beijing after it was found that a number of employees were infected with the Corona virus.