Weather of Arabia - Corona Virus is spreading rapidly and rapidly in the world, with the number of people infected so far exceeding 100,000 in 93 countries amid increasing precautionary measures.
While the number of deaths in the world due to infection with the Coruna virus 3457, while the World Health Organization ( WHO ) reduced the expectations of reduced infection, especially in the summer .
The UAE and Qatar Ministry of Health confirmed today, Saturday, that the number of cases of corona in the two countries has increased to 45 in the UAE and 12 cases of corona virus in Qatar.
The UAE appealed to citizens and residents not to travel abroad and decided to close all schools for a month from Sunday, and also canceled or postponed events across the country, while other events such as horse races and football matches are held in closed places without an audience .
While the Saudi authorities decided to close their land borders with the Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain, except for commercial trucks, as they identified flights coming from those countries to three of the airports: King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam.
As Kuwait stopped its flights to and from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Bangladesh, the Philippines, India and Sri Lanka for a week due to the Coronavirus, which had 58 cases, and it prevented entry of foreigners who were in these countries during the past two weeks.
The Palestinian News Agency, "Wafa", reported the number of people with corona's disease to 16. While it rose in Lebanon to record 22 injuries, according to the statement of Rafic Hariri Hospital in the capital, Beirut.
The Hong Kong authorities have asked their residents to postpone all non-essential trips out of the country after the increasing spread of the Coruna virus worldwide, especially South Korea, Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto, Italy .
The authorities there stated that the number of cases infected with the Corona virus reached 106 cases, of whom 2 died during the past six weeks.
The Afghan Ministry of Health confirmed that the number of cases of corona in the country has risen to four .
Facebook decided to close its offices in the British capital, London until Monday, to conduct a complete clean-up, and employees will work from their homes until that time, after a visiting employee from Singapore was diagnosed with the Corona virus .
The company also urged its Singapore employees to work from their homes until March 13. She immediately closed the area to be completely cleared
South Korea today recorded 174 new cases of Coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 6767 cases, while the number of deaths from the virus reached 44 cases.
As of the end of Friday, China has recorded 99 new confirmed cases of coronavirus as of the end of Friday
This brings the total confirmed cases of the Corona virus until Saturday morning to 80,651 cases. While the number of deaths reached 3070 cases by the end.
The Colombian authorities announced the registration of the first confirmed case of infection with the Corona virus, of a 19-year-old girl who visited Milan, Italy.
Reuters news agency reported the death of Iranian parliamentarian Fatima Rahbar, due to infection with Corona virus. As of Saturday morning, Iran had recorded 4747 cases as of Saturday morning .
Source: Reuters and news agencies
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