With the spread of the coronavirus accelerating globally, Iraq has issued a ban on travellers from five countries.
Thailand, South Korean, Japan, Italy and Singapore make the list, while the authorities have indefinitely extended the entry ban on travellers from China.
The entry ban exempts Iraqi nationals, diplomats and official delegations, with the health ministry advising its citizens not to travel to those countries.
Schools and universities have also been suspended for 10 days in Najaf, where the first case of coronavirus was reported on Monday.
Meanwhile, the death toll in China touched 2,663, with more than 80,000 people infected in the country so far.
Bangladeshi lawmakers elected veteran Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the country's new president on Thursday, making the longtime opposition figure the head of state after his party came to power in a major political transition.
Russian strikes have killed 16 people and injured more than 40 in Kyiv and the surrounding region on Thursday as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a failure by Ukraine's allies to replenish its stock of air defence missiles was costing lives.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan plan to move back to Britain this month, six years after they stepped down from their royal duties and relocated to the US, a source close to the couple said.
South Korea's presidential office has condemned North Korea's launch of more than 10 short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday and ordered its military to maintain full readiness during ongoing joint exercises with the United States.
Bangladesh elects ruling party veteran Alamgir as president
Russian strikes kill 16 in Ukraine's Kyiv
Prince Harry and Meghan to move back to Britain
North Korea launches 10 ballistic missiles as US-South Korea drills near end
Kenya tourist helicopter crash kills seven
