Iran's deputy HEALTH minister tests positive for coronavirus after looking shaky and unwell in a press conference - but regime still refuses to close pilgrim city as death toll rises to 15

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 25, 2020 | Tim Stickings

[C19fan]

Iran's deputy health minister has tested positive for coronavirus as the crisis deepened in the Islamic republic today.

Iraj Harirchi was taken into quarantine just a day after sweating heavily at a press conference where he insisted that the outbreak was not as bad as feared.

The virus's spread into the health ministry is the latest sign of Tehran's faltering efforts to contain the outbreak as the official death toll rose to 15 today.

The regime has refused to seal off the holy city of Qom at the centre of the crisis even as pilgrims spread the virus around the Middle East and Iranians face shortages of masks and testing kits.

[texas booster]

Schadenfreude.

[janetjanet998]

Iran is toast

many new cases today in other countries of people from Iran

also this
BREAKING: Iran confirms MP Mahmoud Sadeghi has been infected with the coronavirus (via

[janetjanet998]

BREAKING: Bahrain reports 9 new cases of coronavirus, raising total there to 17 cases in just 1 day; all are linked to Iran

[11th_VA]

This is the first positive news on the virus I’ve read in weeks !

[11th_VA]

Bahrain reports 9 new cases of coronavirus, raising total there to 17 cases in just 1 day; all are linked to Iran

Iran is the new center of the virus now ....

[TigerClaws]

Ping.

Second post here shows a Chinese woman claiming her husband was taken off and incinerated while still alive.

https://mobile.twitter.com/HarisSe97095557

[janetjanet998]

Iran urges citizens to stay at home as coronavirus spreads: TV

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-iran-idUSKCN20J19P?taid=5e552107ee23af00013b3152&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

[rdcbn]

You just cant make this stuff up.

Bagdad Bob gives this one a double thumbs up with 10 camel humps on a scale of 10 humps.

This one surpasses his Bob’s historic final news broadcast on how Saddam was defeating the American army being interrupted by American tanks pulling up into the parking lot

[kingu]

...and liberals will of course withdraw the lawsuit banning travel from Iran in...

What am I saying... Politics always first, then health & security.

[Leep]

Maybe some good will come out of Coronavirus?

[GulfMan]

Well, he was on the front line and not hiding from the outbreak, wish him well.

[BipolarBob]

Wow!

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

That is absolutely horrific. I can’t imagine someone being shoved into a crematorium retort whilst still alive. Why can’t they let them at least die first and cremate them 24 hours later when they are definately dead?

[VTenigma]

Commies just doing what commies do. Life is cheap in communist countries, just as it’s getting cheaper here by the day.

[GulfMan]

I highly doubt it, rumors are spreading like crazy by frightened and scared folks, sad situation all around.

[Reno89519]

Pilgrimage to Hajj is July 28-August 2.

[null and void]

The more tourists we have the more money we make.

The more tourists we infect the quicker the 12th imam will climb out of the well...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[MRadtke]

“The regime has acknowledged 95 cases of coronavirus with 15 people now dead”

That's a better than 15% mortality rate!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It sounds like there are lesser pilgrimages going on now before the Big Show in July.