Iran
Tehran City Council In Limbo After District Mayor Diagnosed With Coronavirus
February 22, 2020
Radio Farda
The meetings of Tehran City Council may be cancelled after the mayor of one Tehran’s 22 districts was diagnosed with coronavirus on Saturday.
The Mayor of District 13 of Tehran, Mojtaba Rahmanzadeh, already had meetings with several officials, including the Chairman of the Council Mohsen Hashemi, in the past few days before testing positive for the virus.
In a tweet on Saturday Hashemi said he was staying home and was going to go to hospital to be tested although he does not have any symptoms of coronavirus infection. Other members of the Council will also be tested for the virus, he said in his tweet.
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Iran - 5th death
These decisions come a few hours after the authorities announced a fifth death from the new coronavirus, as well as 10 new cases, bringing the total number of infected people in the Islamic Republic to 28.
“We have ten new confirmed cases of Covid-19,” health ministry spokesman Kianouche Jahanpour said on state television on Saturday.
“One of the 10 infected people unfortunately died,” he added.
Mr. Jahanpour did not specify the nationality of the five deceased people.
“Mohsen Hashemi”
He is the son of former President of Iran, Rafsanjani