The death toll from Coronavirus worldwide has risen to 23 million 357 thousand and 512 cases, of whom 15 million and more than 849 thousand have recovered, while deaths have reached more than 807 thousand worldwide.
The following are the latest developments related to Corona recorded today, Sunday, August 23, according to Makkah time.
01:32 Decline in infections in Egypt
The Ministry of Health and Population in Egypt announced the registration of 89 new cases of Coronavirus and 12 deaths, compared with 123 cases and 19 deaths yesterday, in a decline to below 100 cases for the first time since April 10, thus increasing the total number The injuries in the country amounted to 97 thousand and 237 cases, including 65 thousand and 118 cases that were cured, and 5243 deaths.
01:32 Morocco adopts distance
education The Moroccan Ministry of Education announced that it has decided to adopt distance education in the new school season for all levels, due to the Corona crisis.
The ministry said that it decided to adopt distance education as an educational formula at the beginning of the school year, which will be launched on September 7 for all levels in all public and private educational institutions and schools of foreign missions.
She indicated that urban education will be available to those who wish, provided that a mechanism is put in place that enables families wishing to do so to express this choice.
01:16 Injuries in Brazil
The Ministry of Health in Brazil said that 50 thousand and 32 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in the country, and 892 deaths from the disease during the past 24 hours.
According to the ministry's data, Brazil has recorded 3 million 582,362 infections since the virus appeared in the country, while the official number of total deaths increased to 114,250 cases.
01:16 Infections in Morocco Morocco
announced - Saturday - 41 deaths and 1565 cases of Coronavirus, bringing that number to 50 thousand and 812, including 858 deaths, and 35 thousand and 40 cases recovered.
01:16 infections in Sudan and
in Sudan, the Ministry of Health monitored 3 deaths and 59 cases of the virus, which brings the total number of infections to 12,682, including 815 deaths, and 6,492 cases have recovered.
01:16 Injuries in Tunisia
The Tunisian Ministry of Health recorded 131 cases of corona in a statement.
The ministry indicated that the total number of injuries rose to 2,738, including 68 deaths, and 1,434 recoveries.
00:39 Masks for schoolchildren in France France
announced on Saturday that 3602 injuries had been recorded in the last 24 hours. With the time to return to school nearing, the government imposed that pupils over the age of 11 years wear masks in classrooms, and that this applies in neighborhoods in Paris and other major cities such as Lyon, Toulouse and Nice.
00:34 More than 5 million infections in America
The new cases of Corona virus in the United States increased by 0.9% compared to the same time yesterday, bringing the total number of infections to 5.65 million, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News.
00:27 Temporary workers return to work
Bloomberg News reported that the re-employment of temporarily laid off workers will continue to boost the recovery of the US labor market in the coming months, but Goldman Sachs, a financial and investment services group, expects a quarter of these layoffs to become permanent.
Business owners laid off more than 22 million people in the first months of the Corona pandemic.
The astonishing number carried a glimmer of hope, with the majority of layoffs being described as temporary, and more than 18 million people were classified as temporarily unemployed in April, the largest number ever recorded.
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