According to official information, 15 people have died of the corona virus in Iran. The government's direct coronavirus officer is also ill.
- Iran is affected by the spread of the corona virus
- Officially, there are 15 deaths from the virus in Iran, 95 people are infected
- Iran's Deputy Minister of Health, Iradsch Harirschi, has now also tested positive for Sars-CoV-2 .
Tehran - The coronavirus * is spreading more and more worldwide. The country of origin China and other East Asian countries are particularly affected. Cases have been on the rise in Iran for a few days now.
Coronavirus in Iran: Iranian Vice Minister of Health Harirschi infected with Sars-CoV-2
According to official information from the Iranian Ministry of Health on Tuesday, the number of fatalities reported in Iran has now risen from 12 to 15. In the meantime, 95 people - 34 more than the previous day - had been tested positive from various.
Now the deputy minister of health of Iran and the direct coronavirus officer in the country has contracted the virus itself, as several media representatives report independently of one another. This was also confirmed by the state news agency IRNA. As a result, Harirschi himself had tested positive for Sars-CoV-2 . "I've been a Corona since last night," said Iraj Harirschi in a video message on state television on Tuesday. Natalie Amiri, head of the ARD office in Tehran , and the Arab news channel Al Jazeera spread the video message of the Iranian Vice Minister of Health on Twitter.
The #Iran deputy health minister has been infected with the #Coronavirius, he says here in a video message. He's been writing to journalists and officials about the #virus in the past few days. Officially, 16 have died in Iran in the meantime. https://t.co/xPLiWv5vYV
- Natalie Amiri (@NatalieAmiri) February 25, 2020Corona virus: Infected health minister Harirschi tried to downplay the corona crisis
The deputy minister had tried in recent days to downplay the country's corona crisis . At least that's what ultra-conservative MP Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani said. He said Monday the Isna news agency said the leadership in Tehran said "not the truth" about the epidemic.
Harirschi had denied the allegations made by the MP who accused the government of obscuring the facts about the spread of the corona virus . According to the Ilna news agency, Amirabadi Farahani even named the number of "50 deaths" from the virus in the central Iranian city of Kom alone. "I categorically contradict this information," said Vice Health Minister Iraj Harirtschi at the time.
Farahani is not alone in his concerns. Many people fear that there are far more dead and infected people than is known to date. Disinfectants are sold out in almost all drugstores, pharmacies and supermarkets in Tehran.
Coronavirus in Iran: Did Minister of Health already show signs of illness at press conference?
Another video that is circulating on Twitter shows Iran's Deputy Minister of Health, Iradsch Harirschi, at a press conference on Monday. Raf Sanchez, Middle East correspondent for the British Telegraph, also shared the video. He wrote: “Iraj Harirschi, Iran's Vice Minister of Health, said yesterday on TV that the Iranian government has the coronavirus spread under control. Today it was announced that he himself was ill. ”The video shows how Harirschi is dabbing his face with a sweat. One of the main symptoms of the coronavirus * is fever.
Iraj Harirchi, Iran's deputy health minister, went on TV yesterday (left) to insist the Iranian government was getting the #coronavirus outbreak under control.
Today it was announced Harirchi himself has the virus. pic.twitter.com/dO0RgLyydk
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More and more countries in Europe are affected by the coronavirus epidemic. It is currently the worst in Italy. In Tenerife (Canary Islands), over 1000 guests of a hotel had to be quarantined due to an infected vacationer.
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