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Bahrain tested a total of 20614 until now. There are 180 active cases. These include 176 stable cases and 4 critical cases. 125 people have been discharged. No new death has been reported

Iran confirmed 966 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s total number of cases to 20,610, health ministry spokesperson Kianush Jahanpoor announced on state television Saturday. Over the last 24 hours 123 people have died from the virus, raising the death toll to 1,556, said Jahanpoor. A total of 7,635 patients have so far recovered, Jahanpoor added. Iran has the most coronavirus cases in the Middle East and is in an ongoing state of economic crisis. US sanctions on the country have seen its currency tank and unemployment grows. The sanctions also mean Iran is struggling to access coronavirus test kits due to US…

Amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said a lockdown in the future might be possible. The statement comes as COVID-19 positive cases in India have increased to 298 while four deaths have also been reported. “I appeal to all of you to discontinue your morning walks for some time and stay at home. We are not doing a lockdown currently but we might in future, if necessary for your betterment and safety,” the chief minister said today. Five or more people can not gather at any place in Delhi, Kejriwal said. “If there are five…

Authorities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan have announced fresh restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus as the number of cases in Central Asia snowballed. In Kazakhstan, where 53 cases have been confirmed, authorities said on Saturday they were closing all parks in Almaty, the country’s biggest city, which was this week put on lockdown along with capital city Nur-Sultan. Over the last two days, police and National Guard servicemen have also locked down several residential buildings in Almaty where infected people lived, Reuters reported. In Uzbekistan, with 33 confirmed cases, the government said late on Friday it…

New orders poured in this week from local and state leaders as US health officials issued stark warnings about the spread of the coronavirus. About 75 million Americans were told to stay home after Connecticut, Illinois, New York, and California directed all non-essential workers to sequester — with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker saying the step was necessary to “avoid the loss of potentially tens of thousands of lives.” And while California Gov. Gavin Newsom said police will not be regulating the statewide order, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said residents of his state could be fined for choosing to ignore the directions. The sweeping measures follow similar directives…

The new coronavirus kills one person every 10 minutes in Iran, the health ministry spokesman tweeted yesterday, as the death toll in the Middle East’s worst-affected country climbed to 1,284. “Based on our information, every 10 minutes one person dies from the coronavirus and some 50 people become infected with the virus every hour in Iran,” Kianush Jahanpur tweeted. The world’s wealthiest nations poured unprecedented aid into the traumatized global economy as coronavirus cases ballooned in the current epicenter Europe even as they waned at the pandemic’s point of origin, China. With almost 228,000 infections and more than 9,200 deaths…

Pleas by the Iranian government for citizens to stay at home at the start of the country’s new year have been widely ignored, with more than 1.2 million people taking to the roads, according to police. Northern towns on the Caspian coast reported tens of thousands of cars trying to reach the main holiday destinations. The latest figures published on Friday showed Iran had recorded 19,644 cases of infection and 1,433 deaths. There were 1,237 new infections in the past 24 hours and 149 new deaths. The number of new infections is a record high for a single day, and the number of…

Saudi Arabia suspended all domestic flights, buses, taxis, and trains for 14 days starting Saturday, the state news agency reported quoting a source in the interior ministry. The source said the move comes as a precautionary measure to limit the spread of coronavirus which has spread panic in global markets and put several countries on virtual lockdowns. Saudi Arabia has so far confirmed 274 infections and no deaths, while globally the pandemic has killed over 10,000 and infected over 240,000.

China’s imported coronavirus cases have risen to a record 228, data showed on Friday, as infected travelers spread to ever more provinces, adding pressure on authorities to toughen entry rules and health protocols. For the second day in a row, China found no domestically transmitted cases of the virus that emerged in its central province of Hubei late last year, according to new daily figures registered on Thursday. Fears of a second wave of infections are growing just as China brings its epidemic under control, with the spread of the virus in Europe and North America spurring a rush homewards…

China has exonerated a doctor who was officially reprimanded for warning about the coronavirus outbreak and later died of the disease, a startling admission of error by the ruling Communist Party that generally bodes no challenges to its authority. The party’s top disciplinary body said the police force in Wuhan had revoked its admonishment of Dr. Li Wenliang that had included a threat of arrest. It also said a “solemn apology” had been issued to Li’s family and that two police officers, identified only by their surnames, had been issued “disciplinary punishments” for the original handling of the matter. In…