(ANSA) - TEHERAN, FEBRUARY 23 - The Iranian authorities have announced that three other people have died in the country due to coronavirus: the deaths, recorded among 15 new cases of contagion, thus bring the total number of victims in Iran to eight.
The authorities also traced the source of coronavirus infections in the country and found that a trader from Qom, the epicenter of the epidemic, had traveled to China with indirect flights after the outbreak of the virus in Wuhan: the Minister of Health, Saeed Namaki, announced .
In the face of the rapid spread of infections in China and when the virus had not yet arrived in Iran, a group of functionaries had repeatedly asked the government to block all connections of the Iranian airline Mahan Air between Iran and China.
Coronavirus: Iran, victims rise to 8
2020-02-23T10:45:33.599Z
The Iranian authorities have announced that three other people have died in the country due to coronavirus: the deaths, recorded among 15 new cases of contagion, thus bring the total number of victims in Iran to eight. (HANDLE)