IRAN
“The cleric is a deputy for the Shiite holy city of Qom in central Iran where the country’s first cases were detected The announcement by Zolnour comes two days after another top official, deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi, head of the government’s coronavirus task force, said he too had contracted the virus.”
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/international/892644-iran-coronavirus-deaths-jump-to-26
ITALY
Coronavirus in Veneto, hospitals under pressure: more infections among doctors
Another cluster grows in Treviso. Zaia orders another 200 permanent hires for the emergency
VENICE The two Coronavirus outbreaks of Veneto and Lombardy are connected. “It is an already established hypothesis,” said WHO’s Walter Ricciardi, who sent his officials to the two most affected Italian regions. Meanwhile, while the Veneto health system is reorganizing itself to better face the emergency, trying to protect its operators as much as possible, we learn that there is a new white coat infected in Padua. He is an intern from the hospital, a university student, tested positive for the swab and now hospitalized for infectives.