China News Service, July 13th, according to Agence France-Presse, the new crown epidemic continued to spread in the Middle East. According to statistics, as of 10:00 GMT on the 12th, more than 20,000 people in the Middle East have died from the new coronavirus, of which more than half are in Iran.
On April 15, local time, volunteers were making masks in the hall of the Hafez Theater in the center of Tehran, Iran.
According to reports, a total of 907,736 confirmed cases and 20005 deaths were reported in the Middle East. Among them, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Israel are the countries most severely affected by the epidemic.
The report said that Iran had the first confirmed case of a new crown in February. Although Iran has been making every effort to contain the epidemic, the data shows that as of the 12th, the country has reported more than 250,000 confirmed cases and 12,929 deaths.
Since the beginning of May, the infection rate in Iran has risen again, and the government requires people to wear masks in closed public places. Khamenei, the country’s top leader, said on July 12 that the rebound was "a real tragedy" and urged all citizens to work together to curb the spread of the epidemic.
Iraq is the country with the second highest number of deaths in the Middle East, with a total of 75,194 confirmed cases and 3,055 deaths; followed by Saudi Arabia, with a cumulative number of more than 220,000 confirmed cases and 2181 deaths.
According to Agence France-Presse statistics, the average number of deaths in the Middle East is 43 per million inhabitants, while the global average is about 70 per million inhabitants. In addition, the death toll in the Middle East accounts for about 3.5% of the global death toll, much lower than in Europe and the Americas.