According to official information, 15 people have already died of the corona virus in Iran. Now the coronavirus officer is apparently 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 Harirtschi, 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: Vice Minister of Health Harirtschi 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 addition, 95 people - 34 more than the previous day - from different parts of the country had been tested positive.
The Iranian deputy minister of health and the country's direct coronavirus officer have also contracted the virus, as several media representatives report independently of one another. This was also confirmed by the state news agency Irna. As a result, Iradsch Harirtschi himself tested positive for Sars-CoV-2 . "I've been a Corona since last night," said Harirtschi 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 Harirtschi 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.
Harirtschi had denied the allegations by the MP who accused the government of obscuring the facts about the spread of the coronavirus . 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," Harirtschi said at the time.
Iran's Deputy Minister of Health, Iradsch Harirtschi (left), is infected with the corona virus.
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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 circulates on Twitter shows Harirtschi at a press conference on Monday. Raf Sanchez, Middle East correspondent for the British Telegraph, also shared the video. He wrote: "Iradsch Harirtschi, 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 is ill. ”The video shows how Harirtschi dabs sweat from his face with a cloth. 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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