In Iran also the medical personnel are the new heroes. The people honor them by dedicating poems to them, a tradition of the Persian New Year, which started a week ago. But this year, one of these poems has taken on a special resonance. " Sorkhiye to az man, Zardiye man az to": "Give me health and take my illness ", implored with melancholy many Iranians, while their country is one of the most affected in the world by the virus (33,000 infected and 2,378 dead).
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Faced with an epidemic that could spread for another two months, according to several doctors, social networks are full of videos, such as that of Dr. Niloofar Nisi, his face swollen by the almost uninterrupted wearing of the mask, in his clinic in Avhaz, in the south of the country. Or that of his students of religion in Machhad, the great holy city of eastern Iran, volunteers to wash the remains of the dead of the virus in accordance with Islamic tradition. We see them bartering their white turban for
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