Iran parliament speaker tests positive for COVID-19

Iran’s parliament speaker examined positive  for COVID-19,  kingdom tv suggested Thursday, 19, becoming the cutting-edge reputable to the agreement the ailment in the difficult hit country.

Ali Larijani “became tested for coronavirus after showing positive symptoms, and as a result became wonderful, he is presently in quarantine and undergoing treatment,” the report stated.

Larijani, 62, is close to the Iranian management and president and turned into re-elected in 2016 for a second term as parliament speaker. He is undoubtedly one of the maximum senior officials to be infected so far.

Iran has been scrambling to comprise the spread of the unconventional coronavirus since it pronounced its first cases on February 19.

Earlier Thursday Iran had suggested 124 new deaths from the coronavirus, raising its overall to 3, a hundred and sixty with greater than 50,000 people inflamed.

The announcement came as President Hasan Rouhani warned at a cabinet meeting that the country may also still warfare the pandemic for another year.

“Coronavirus isn't something for which we will factor to a certain date and say it's going to be eradicated via then,” he stated.

Rouhani stated the virus “could be with us in upcoming months, or until the end” of the current Iranian year, in March 2021.

The virus has no longer spared Iranian lawmakers or other officers.

At least 23 of the legislature’s 290 members have tested nice for the novel coronavirus so far, kingdom news employer IRNA stated on Tuesday.

COVID-19 has also killed as a minimum 12 serving or former government officials, in keeping with reputable reports.

After weeks of refraining from implementing a lockdown or quarantine measures, Tehran decided final week to ban all intercity travel till as a minimum April 8.

There is not any official lockdown inside Iran’s cities, although the government has repeatedly advised Iranians to stay at domestic to incorporate the spread of the virus.

Iran has closed schools and universities as well as four critical Shiite pilgrimage sites, consisting of the Fatima Masumeh Shrine in Qom, Iran’s epicentre for the virus.

It has also discouraged travel, cancelled the first weekly Friday prayers and briefly closed parliament.