Inshallah
Posted on 03/21/2020 4:17:43 PM PDT by KingofZion
ran's death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak rose by 149 to 1,433 on Friday (Mar 20), a health ministry official tweeted, adding that that total number of confirmed infections had increased by 1,237 to 19,644. *** Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi said 1,237 more cases were confirmed over the past 24 hours and 19,644 people are now known to have been infected in Iran, one of the world's worst-hit countries.
The latest figures come as Iranians celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year which ushers in a two-week holiday during which Iran's roads are normally filled with people visiting family.
The authorities had urged the public to avoid family visits or days out this year to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
But footage aired by state television showed hundreds of vehicles pouring out of Tehran on Thursday evening.
Remote sensors installed at tollbooths checked the body temperatures of motorists and their passengers, but there was no mass stay-home as called for by the authorities.
Raisi defended Iran's reluctance to resort to the sort of "coercive powers" granted to police in France and Italy to force people off the streets.
He said checkpoints had been set up around major cities to test suspected cases and that those found positive were being sent home to self-quarantine.
That contrasted with earlier guidance from the government which had said that anyone suspected of having COVID-19 would be quarantined.
In holiday messages broadcast on Friday, both supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani promised that Iran would overcome the outbreak. ****
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Their leaders need to spit in more Iranian drinks.
Maybe go to the local botiling factory and spit on an industrial level.
Coming soon to an Interstate highway near you.
Yeah, all those people in body bags died of... Corona-whatzit. That’s the ticket! Some of their heads just sort of, you know, fell off.
Gee, that’s about the number of people the Iranian regime killed in the anti govt. protests...
Maybe we can sent them a statue of Odinga and they can start licking his (*&) arse
Let me guess, 100% of them had compromised health issues. Acute Protestorosis or some such thing.
Idols dipstick
It’s not that I don’t care about other countries, it’s just that my concern at the moment is for mine.
I remember 1979 ... could not happen to a better bunch of folks!!
Knew some Iranians in college (pre-1979) They were okay. Smart, well groomed and well behaved.
Inshallah
From the Johns Hopkins site. Iran looks to be flattening the last 4-5 days.
burned itself out?
For the same reason that I live in Texas, with a population of 29 million, and we have five deaths.
From the Johns Hopkins site. Iran looks to be lying the last 4-5 days. /fixed
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