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Thirty-nine people died, the most since mid-May, he said.
“The number of patients in serious condition continues to increase,” Koca said in a tweet.
Shia Muslims practice the solemn sacred day of Ashoura, which mark with large and bleak meetings, in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
Ashoura commemorates the 7th-century murder of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq with the army of then-Caliph Yazid, whom Hussein had refused to swear allegiance.
Public expressions of grievance in networks are related to Shiites.
But with the pandemic, Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, grand ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, encouraged people to observe the mourning in other ways such as watching online or televised commemorations from home, the Associated Press reports.
In all containment spaces in the country, spaces where the number of infections is of maximum severity, strict blocking restrictions will be maintained, the government said.
The “exponential” increase in the number of new cases on Friday to 7,379 marked the highest figure reported since France imposed a blockade at the height of the pandemic.
“In mainland France, the progression of the Covid-19 epidemic is exponential. The strong growth dynamics of transmission is very worrying,” the health ministry said on its website.
Prof Martin Green, the chief executive of Care England, said he had repeatedly asked ministers and senior officials to enact a pledge by Matt Hancock, the health secretary, on 8 June that “every care home” in England would receive regular testing for the virus.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday of the 93,873 tests reported Friday, 635 or 0.67% positive.
“Sadly, there were 7 Covid fatalities yesterday,” Cuomo said in a tweet.
The number of people in hospital with the disease was at 4,530, down slightly from 4,535 the day before and the number in intensive care rose to 400 from 387, Reuters reports.
Carrying placards railing against the World Health Organization, Bill Gates and government measures to reduce the spread of coronavirus, the demonstrators called for an end to movement restrictions and mandatory face coverings.
Many placards described the coronavirus pandemic as a hoax and a scam.
The UK has recorded 1,108 new cases shown in more than 24 hours, the government said on Saturday, below Friday’s figure.
Protesters were dispersing peacefully although there were some pockets of disturbance, such as a construction container fire and blocked roads, police said. Some 3,000 officers had been deployed to control crowds estimated at 18,000. Police had been preparing for possible violence as activists opposed to measures to contain the virus urged social media followers across Europe to arm themselves and gather in Berlin.
Earlier this week the city banned the protest but a German regional court overnight gave the final go-ahead by overruling the earlier decision.
Some 200 anti-mask activists organized a demonstration in Paris to protest against fitness measures with slogans such as: “No to the dictatorship of fitness” and “Let our young people breathe.”