Posted on 02/23/2020 5:08:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Iran has taken drastic measures to contain the new coronavirus outbreak, ordering the closure of schools, universities and cultural centres across 14 provinces from Sunday following eight deaths in the Islamic Republic – the most outside East Asia and the first in the Middle East.
Iran’s outbreak surfaced on Wednesday and has quickly worsened with 43 cases confirmed.
“The concern is … that we have seen … a very rapid increase (in Iran) in a matter of a few days,” said Sylvie Briand, director of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) global infectious hazard preparedness department.
Iran’s government also ordered all “art and cinema events” nationwide cancelled until the end of the coming week.
Neighbouring Iraq on Thursday clamped down on travel to and from Iran, and flag carrier Kuwait Airways has suspended flights to the country. Pakistan and Turkey also closed their borders with the neighbouring country.
Although Egypt is the only African country with a confirmed case of Covid-19 – the name given to the disease caused by the virus – the WHO warned that the continent’s health systems were ill-equipped to cope with a potential major outbreak and urged more cooperation among the African Union.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said necessary treatment tools such as respiratory support machines were “in short supply in many African countries and that’s a cause for concern”.
Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday accused foreign media of trying to use the deadly outbreak in Iran to “discourage” people from voting in a general election.
“This negative propaganda began a few months ago and grew larger approaching the election and in the past two days, under the pretext of an illness and a virus, their media did not miss the slightest opportunity to discourage people from voting,” said Khamenei.
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Kind of makes you wonder just how many warheads we could put Time On Target in a country that size.
As Jesus said it rains on the just and the unjust.
Please, let’s have a big welcome for Jethro Tull
Whoop!
Hello. Hang on, press on. Be back with you in a minute
I’d better not open this now because it might contain contraband
We’ll give it to John to supplement his Camels. He dropped on his head when he was very small. We occasionally cut his fingernails off and smoke them. This is a... a song about... about everything
Thanks for posting. WHO let the germs out? (Not funny...but I couldn’t resist...sorry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkuu0Lwb5EM
HEALTH/LIFE BUMP!
I was just watching an English Doctor on YouTube that said in Malaysia, you are looked down upon if you wash your hands ... that’s a Muslim country that stands to see a significant population decrease.
He also believes the Iranian Virus strain could be a more virulent type, that may kill upwards of 10 percent - he’s getting emails from professionals in Iran that work on hospitals - the symptoms they are seeing are more like SARS.
How many Iranians were training at the Wuhan bio-lab when the accident occurred?
Norks?
Yemenis?
Etc?
Etc?
Sounds more Blue Oyster Cult than Jethro Tull.
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It was Charlie and the train it won’t stop goin’, no way to slow down.
You need to start paying rent for the time you spend in my head.
Instead of Captain Trips, need to start calling the virus Aqualung.
/gallows humor
Imagine that.
Given sanctions and such, and all the women ‘encouraged’ to wear the near equivalent of a mask in public, I’d think that Iran would be kind of slow to have it spread.
Maybe it isn’t accidental.
Blood brothers and sisters...lol.
Yeats did angst with style, eh?
With deep sea diver sound?
Dr.Campbell. He’s the BEST!
Rattling last breaths
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