Travel restrictions are not to stop it, but to slow it down.
We HAVE to use measures to slow it down or our healthcare is going to be overwhelmed in a few weeks. We will have enough cases now to possibly overwhelm the system, without adding 10000s of imported cases.
IRAN
Head of Iran’s emergency medical services contracts COVID-19
Pir-Hossein Kolivand not first high-ranking Iranian official who tested positive for coronavirus
Ahmet Dursun | 03.03.2020
ANKARA
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/health/head-of-irans-emergency-medical-services-contracts-covid-19/1753274