The pace of infection with the Corona virus accelerated in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, Algeria and Turkey, while thousands demonstrated in France and Australia, rejecting the closure measures taken to confront the epidemic.

Yesterday, Saturday, Morocco recorded 5,494 cases of the Corona virus, which represents the highest daily toll in more than 8 months, as well as 23 deaths and 1,604 cases of recovery.

The authorities indicated that the new cases of infection raised the total number of infected people to 575,162 cases, including 9,559 deaths, and 542,078 people recovered from the virus.

For weeks, Morocco has recorded an increasing increase in the number of new infections, after the country was moving in the direction of eliminating restrictions imposed on movement between cities, before the government was forced to re-enact new measures to prevent the spread of the virus, at a time when the number of vaccination beneficiaries reached 21 million and 522 thousand, Out of about 36 million nationwide.

The Royal Palace in Morocco announced the postponement of the celebrations of the 22nd anniversary of King Mohammed VI's accession to power due to the epidemiological situation.

In Tunisia, the Ministry of Health said that it had monitored 317 deaths as a result of Corona, which is the highest daily toll since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country, and 5,624 new cases of the virus were recorded in the past 24 hours, and thus the total infections rose to 563,930, including 18,369 deaths. , 457 thousand and 579 cases of recovery.

The World Health Organization says that the daily death toll from Covid-19 in Tunisia is currently the highest in Africa and the Arab world.


Long queues

On the other hand, the Libyan authorities launched yesterday, Saturday, a vaccination campaign in field centers established in the capital, Tripoli.

On July 11, the Libyan authorities closed cafes and restaurants, suspended attendance at universities, and banned weddings and gatherings due to the acceleration of the epidemic, as the number of daily injuries recorded at the end of last April jumped from 400 to several thousand recently.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Libya - with a population of 7 million people - has officially recorded 229,604 injuries, including 3,344 deaths, and the number of vaccinated people has reached about 500,000.

In Mauritania, cases and deaths from the emerging coronavirus are increasing, and the authorities announced yesterday, Saturday, 8 deaths and 177 new infections due to the virus.

In Algeria, the authorities recorded 1,305 new infections with the Corona virus, and 16 deaths during the last 24 hours.

In Turkey, data from the Ministry of Health showed that new cases of infection jumped yesterday, Saturday, to 12,381 cases, recording the highest rate since mid-May, and the ministry's data showed that 58 patients had died.

Daily injuries decreased 20 days ago to 4,418, after reaching more than 60,000, which prompted the authorities to impose a strict closure, before lifting most restrictions this month.

As for Lebanon, Firas Abyad, director of Rafic Hariri University Hospital, which is the largest government hospital to treat Corona, warned that the deepening economic crisis is causing increasing pressure on hospitals.

In addition to the emigration of medical staff and the interruption of medicines in Lebanon, hospitals suffer from continuous power cuts for periods of up to 22 hours, and the lack of fuel to operate generators, coinciding with a new epidemic wave.

Part of the vaccination campaign in Tripoli, Libya (Reuters)

global developments

Globally, demonstrations against the precautionary restrictions continue in several countries, as thousands of people demonstrated in the Australian city of Sydney, and violent confrontations took place with the police.

Also in the Australian city of Melbourne, the demonstrators - most of whom were without masks - violated the measures banning non-essential movement and banning public gatherings, a day after the authorities announced the possibility of maintaining restrictions until next October.

After the first demonstrations, in which at least 114,000 demonstrators participated, a week ago, dozens of demonstrations took place throughout France under the slogan "For freedom" and "against the health dictatorship", in protest against the expansion of the scope of the imposition of the health certificate and the imposition of compulsory vaccination of some professions, from Including medical staff.

This comes in conjunction with Spain imposing, as of last Tuesday, a 10-day quarantine for travelers from Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia and Namibia.

Vietnam also imposed a stone on the city of Hanoi to contain the wave of epidemic infections that have so far forced a third of the country's total population of 100 million people to stay in their homes.

And the French Press Agency stated that the outcome of the epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean exceeded 40 million infections, as well as more than 3 million deaths, making it the most affected region in the world by the epidemic.