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Reuters Umit Bektas
The World Health Organization indicated that the urgent tightening of restrictions is the only way to avoid many victims in a new wave of the Corona virus in the Middle East.
The regional director of the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean, Ahmed Al-Mandhari, expressed during a press conference from Cairo on Thursday, his deep concern about the reduction in the countries of the region, which includes the largest part of the Middle East, the level of preparedness for epidemics after lifting the general isolation measures.
Al-Mandhari noted that more than 3.6 million corona cases, including more than 76,000 deaths in the region over the past nine months, have been recorded, warning of an escalation of the pandemic and urging that urgent action be taken to prevent “this worrying prediction from coming true.”
He expressed special concern about the epidemiological situation in several countries in the region, especially Iran, Jordan and Morocco, which have more than 60% of the infections detected during the last week.
Al-Mandhari also paid attention to the high rate of the epidemic in Pakistan and Lebanon, where comprehensive isolation measures were imposed earlier this week, noting that Jordan, Tunisia and Lebanon recorded unprecedented record jumps in the death toll to regional level.
Source: Associated Press
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