Corona ... closure in Jordan, emergencies in Morocco, and fears of the spread of the virus in the forty-years of Hussein, Iraq

The Iraqi authorities fear the spread of the Corona virus among tens of thousands of visitors participating in the fortieth of Al-Hussein in Karbala, while several European countries have decided to take strict measures to confront a second wave of the virus.

It is usual for about 20 million Shiite Muslims to participate in Hussein's forties, but this year, in which Iraq is already registering a number of 5,000 new cases of corona per day and where the number of deaths approached 10,000 cases, the authorities have prevented the entry of most foreign visitors, including nearly 3 million Iranians.

However, tens of thousands of people walked uninterested in the pandemic on foot for days from different parts of Iraq to Karbala, where the forty-day ceremony reached its climax on Thursday.

The Corona virus has caused the death of at least 1.57 million people around the world since the virus was reported to have appeared in China at the end of last December, according to a census conducted by Agence France-Presse Thursday based on official sources.

These numbers only reflect a part of the actual number of injuries, as several countries do not conduct tests except for the most serious cases, while other countries give priority to conducting tests to track contacts of the injured, in addition to the limited testing capabilities of a number of poor countries.

Iran ... a record increase in Corona injuries

The Iranian Ministry of Health said today, Thursday, that it had recorded a record number of new infections with the Corona virus in the past twenty-four hours, which reached 4,392 cases, bringing the total number to more than 488,000 cases.

Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Larry told state television that there were 230 new deaths, bringing the total number to 27,888 deaths in the Middle East country most affected by the pandemic.

Moroccan citizens wear masks to protect themselves from the Corona virus (European News Agency)

Corona ... Morocco extends the state of emergency for an additional month,

today, Thursday, the Moroccan government extended the state of health emergency for an additional month to counter the outbreak of the Corona virus.

This is the seventh extension of the health emergency since it was first imposed on March 20 to keep Corona under control.

For more than two months, Morocco has recorded an increase in the number of injuries and deaths due to the epidemic, with a daily count of more than two thousand for a few weeks.

As of Wednesday, Morocco had recorded more than 137,000 HIV infections, in addition to 2,410 deaths, while more than 118,000 had recovered.

Jordan returns to the general isolation measures

Officials said that Jordan will return to impose general isolation measures at the level of the Kingdom on Friday for a period of 48 hours, for the first time in months, amid concern of health officials that the large increase in cases of infection with the Coronavirus will lead to more pressure on the health sector.

The Kingdom witnessed an increase, which officials described as a "huge" increase in the number of cases, which rose by about 10 thousand cases in a little more than a week, bringing the total number of injuries to almost doubling since the first infection appeared in the country in early March, which represents a shift from what it used to be. The case in Jordan, which witnessed one of the lowest rates of deaths and injuries in the Middle East.

Some top officials are striving to avoid wider lockdown measures that the hard-hit economy cannot afford.

The International Monetary Fund expects the economy, which was struggling even before the pandemic, to contract by 6% this year, the first since 1990.

Madrid

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court rejected Thursday the partial closure of the Spanish capital and 9 neighboring municipalities, which the authorities imposed in an attempt to curb the spread of the second wave of Coroma.

The court deemed the government's decision "detrimental to the fundamental rights" of the population of 4.5 million concerned.

A doctor at a Corona examination center at a German airport (Reuters)

Germany fears Corona out of control and

with the acceleration of infections in Europe, the German authorities on Thursday expressed their concern about the "worrying rise" in the number of HIV infections, after the country's relative success in containing the virus had met many praises.

The increase in the number of injuries coincided with the autumn holidays in many regions of the country, prompting the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel to call on residents to avoid traveling abroad.

The number of injuries recorded daily in Germany exceeded 4000 for the first time since the beginning of April.

Lothar Feller, director of the Robert Koch Institute for Disease Control and Prevention in Germany, warned that the country may record more than 10,000 infections per day, and the virus may spread out of control.

Closure in Europe and

in Belgium, the usually crowded bars and cafes of Brussels were closed for a month, recalling the more stringent measures imposed during the height of the Corona crisis in March and April last.

In France, officials intend to apply tighter restrictions in a number of major cities, two days after the imposition of a health alert in Paris.

The number of daily infections in France approached 19,000 on Wednesday, a record number since widespread checks began.

Orders were issued in Paris to close bars and cafes from Tuesday for a period of two weeks to ease the spread of the virus, nearly a week after new restrictions were imposed in Marseille and Guadeloupe in the French Antilles.

On Thursday, Austria recorded the highest daily death toll in Corona, despite the measures taken in recent weeks to contain the epidemic.

Figures issued by the Ministry of Health showed that 1,209 new infections were recorded within 24 hours.

In Belgium, the authorities ordered the closure of bars on Thursday in Brussels, where the headquarters of the European Union and NATO (NATO).

Restaurants will remain open under strict rules to maintain social distancing, but bars and cafes will close their doors after the number of new infections and cases requiring hospital transportation reached its highest levels since last April.

As for Scotland, it imposed a two-week ban on frequenting bars in its two main cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, on Wednesday, increasing pressure on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to impose similar measures in England.

However, the warnings issued by health experts about the high number of injuries collide with increasing opposition to the closure measures in many countries, especially by the business owners most affected by the measures and demonstrators skeptical of their effectiveness.

For its part, the Polish authorities imposed on residents to wear masks in all public places as of Saturday, after the country recorded a record daily number of 4,280 injuries.

"The second wave has arrived and we have to face it in a decisive way," Polish Prime Minister Matthews Murawiecki told reporters.

Corona infection rates have doubled in Russia despite announcing an anti-virus vaccine (Anadolu Agency)

Russia ... calls to stay at home over the weekend

The Russian Information Agency said that the Ministry of Health issued a recommendation today, Thursday, for Russians to stay at home this weekend due to a significant increase in new cases of Coronavirus.

Russia recorded more than 11 thousand new infections today, Thursday, slightly less than the highest daily increase recorded since the start of the outbreak of the pandemic, bringing the total number of infections in the country to one million and 200 thousand injuries.

On Wednesday, the head of the Russian Health Agency admitted that the epidemiological situation "is getting more complicated."