{"id":70337,"date":"2020-04-16T14:19:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T06:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=70337"},"modified":"2020-04-16T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T06:25:17","slug":"iraq-to-extend-curfew-until-ramadan-to-contain-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=70337","title":{"rendered":"Iraq To Extend Curfew Until Ramadan To Contain COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Apr 16 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; The Iraqi authorities decided to extend the nationwide curfew until the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, to contain the outbreak of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision came, after a video conference by the Higher Committee for Health and National Safety, headed by the caretaker Prime Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, the committee said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee also decided to hold another meeting next week, before Ramadan, which is expected to start on Apr 24 or 25, according the Islamic lunar calendar, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee will discuss in the upcoming meeting, details of precautionary measures to contain COVID-19, including the curfew during the holy Ramadan, when Muslims refrain from eating and drinking during daylight hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the day, the Iraqi Ministry of Health confirmed 15 new cases of COVID-19, during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 1,415.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iraqi authorities have taken several measures to contain the outbreak of COVID-19, including imposing a nationwide curfew until Apr 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help Iraq cope with the virus spread, a Chinese team of seven experts has been working with their Iraqi counterparts since Mar 7.&#8211; NNN-NINA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Apr 16 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; The Iraqi authorities decided to extend the nationwide curfew until the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, to contain the outbreak of COVID-19. The decision came, after a video conference by the Higher Committee for Health and National Safety, headed by the caretaker Prime Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":70340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[198,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}