Iraq shut schools and universities on Tuesday and told citizens to avoid mass gatherings, as it rushed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus from its neighbor Iran, hit by what appears to be the worst outbreak outside of China. An Iraqi family of four who returned from a visit to Iran tested positive for the coronavirus in Iraq’s northern Kirkuk province. They were the first Iraqis known to have caught the disease, a day after an Iranian theology student in the Shi’ite holy city of Najaf became Iraq’s first confirmed case. Measures to curb the spread could have major political repercussions in Iraq, where around 500 […]