Following the spread of coronavirus global pandemic and restriction of foreigners' travel to Iraq, Grand Arbaeen March is taking place with the participation of only Iraqi Muslims this year.
According to En.mehrnews.com, people in capital Baghdad, like other Iraqi cities, have begun their walking towards Karbala for Arbaeen pilgrimage which marks forty days after Imam Hussein (PBUH) and his true companions were martyred at Karbala Battlefield.