Shafaq News / The Iraqi Foreign Ministry directed on Wednesday its embassies in seven countries to stop granting entry permits to the country, after the outbreak of Corona virus in those countries.

"The Minister of Foreign Affairs has directed the Iraqi embassies in China, Iran, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Italy and Singapore to stop granting entry visas to the arrivals ," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Al-Sahaf said in a statement today.

The decision excluded Iraqis from these countries, as well as diplomats working in diplomatic missions, and official delegations provided they would be subjected to the procedures of the Ministry of Health, according to what the spokesman announced.