Iraq on Monday confirmed its first novel coronavirus infection in an Iranian national studying in the southern shrine city of Najaf, health officials said.
The country, whose healthcare system is run down, often hosts pilgrims and religious students from Iran, where 12 people have died since a coronavirus outbreak there was first reported last week.
Iraq had blocked travel to and from the Islamic republic days before announcing a seminary student in Najaf was the country’s first confirmed case.
Najaf’s provincial health authority said the Iranian national had entered “before the ban was declared”.
An AFP correspondent said the man is being quarantined in a hospital in the city.
The education directorate in Najaf said official mid-year exams, which had already started, would be cancelled until further notice to protect students.
The governor of Salaheddin, north of Baghdad, said that non-Iraqis would not be allowed into the province ahead of a religious pilgrimage to Shiite shrines in the area planned for Tuesday
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