Iraq on total lockdown until March 28 over virus fears

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BAGHDAD: Iraq on Sunday (March 22) imposed a total nationwide lockdown until March 28 to fight the Covid-19 (coronavirus), as the number of cases grew and the death toll climbed to 20. Most of Iraq's 18 provinces had so far imposed their own local curfews but the new measures would include the whole of the country.

A woman is seen wearing a mask embellished with petals in the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf, Iraq. Iraq on Sunday imposed a total nationwide lockdown until March 28 to fight the Covid-19 outbreak, as the number of cases grew and the death toll climbed to 20. - AFP

Schools, universities and other gathering places would remain closed, as would the country's multiple international airports, it said in a statement seen by the media. It has logged a total of 233 coronavirus cases and recorded 20 deaths, but there are concerns that many more are going undetected as only 2,000 people of the country's 40 million population have been tested so far.On Saturday, tens of thousands of Shiite pilgrims turned out in Baghdad and other cities in the south of the country to commemorate the death of a revered Muslim imam.

 

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