The Ministry of Royal Palaces in Morocco announced today that it was decided to postpone the speech of King Mohammed VI on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Green March after the discovery of a case in the ranks of the technical team in charge of recording and broadcasting the royal speech, while Friday prayers resumed today in Algeria after 8 months of interruption due to the pandemic. Jordan today has the highest death toll from the emerging disease.

A statement by the Royal Palace stated that the speech of King Mohammed VI - which was to be broadcast this evening - will be broadcast tomorrow, Saturday, at 9:00 pm local time, and added that the postponement of the royal speech took a commitment to the health protocol and the preventive measures adopted in the country.

In a related context, Morocco recorded today 5,398 new cases of the virus and 68 new deaths, with 3,739 new recoveries recorded.

The total number of people infected with the virus in the Kingdom to date is 246,349 cases, while the number of deaths is approximately 4,127, while a total of 200,954 have recovered.

Friday prayers


In Algeria, Friday prayers resumed today, after about 8 months of stopping due to the outbreak of the new Corona virus, despite the return of the number of infections to the increase.

As is the practice in the rest of the prayers, the temperature of the worshipers was checked when entering the mosques, social distancing was maintained, as was the wearing of the muzzle, which had become mandatory since May 24, and each person brought his own carpet or was given a disposable carpet.

The doors of the Algiers Mosque, the third largest mosque in the world, were also opened, to host the first Friday prayer in which 10,000 worshipers participated, about a week after its inauguration.

Algerians hold Friday prayers in a mosque in the capital today for the first time in 8 months (Anatolia)

Algeria has gradually reopened mosques, which have a capacity of more than 1,000 worshipers, since mid-August, in light of the decline in the number of virus victims, but the number of infected people has increased again in the recent period.

In total, about 61,000 injuries were recorded in Algeria, including 2,024 deaths since last February, according to official figures.

Deaths


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Jordan

In Jordan, the Ministry of Health today counted 67 new deaths from the virus, which is the highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic, and 5384 new cases of the disease were recorded, bringing the total to 101,248, including 1136 deaths.

Since early August, the Kingdom has entered a period of escalating infections, after the country was able to control the epidemiological situation of Corona in the first months following the outbreak of the disease.

Outside the Arab region, the United States, which is busy with news of the results of the presidential elections, recorded more than 120,000 new infections with the virus within 24 hours, which is a new record daily outcome, according to data published by Johns Hopkins University.

The United States is the largest focus of the pandemic in the world with 9 million and 650 thousand injuries, and more than 235 thousand deaths, followed by India with more than 8.4 million injuries in total and nearly 125 thousand deaths, and Brazil is ranked third with more than 5.6 million injuries, and more than 161 thousand people have died. the disease.

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In Europe, more than 12 million people have been officially confirmed to be infected with the virus, according to a statistics made by the French Press Agency today, based on figures published by the health authorities of the countries of the continent.

About half of the injuries were recorded in Europe in 4 countries, which are Russia (one million and 733 thousand), France (one million and 601 thousand), Spain (one million and 306 thousand) and the United Kingdom (one million and 123 thousand).

Europe has become the epicenter of the epidemic in recent weeks, just as it was in the months of March and April of last year. Since the beginning of last month, the European continent has recorded the highest number of daily infections among regions of the world. Last week it recorded more than 280,000 daily infections, which is more than half Total injuries in the world (525 thousand injuries daily, on average).