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“Minister Mohamed Gomaa, after praying at the Al-Nour mosque in the Abbassia district, decided to close it for two weeks from Tuesday due to the fact that worshipers in the mosque did not comply with the requirements of the ministry on the mandatory wearing of masks and availability of a personal prayer mat,” the ministry said.

Yuichiro Hata, who served as transport minister under the now-defunct Democratic Party of Japan, was pronounced dead at a Tokyo hospital on Sunday, and COVID-19 was the cause of his death, according to Tetsuro Fukuyama, secretary general of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, which he belonged to.