A few days ago , Persian deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi held a press group discussion about the new coronavirus infection , COVID-19 .
Mr Harirchi , who leads Iran ’s anti - coronavirus taskforce , and Ali Rabiei , the government minister for social welfare , reassure the publicthat they were n’t cover up the scale leaf of the irruption , follow accusal that Iran has had more cases than the official phone number of grammatical case reported . As well as try on to squash the mind that the Iranian governing is hide the true scale of the outbreak , the press conference was supposed to reassure the publicabout the dangers they face up from the virus . Iran currently has the highest COVID-19 - colligate last outside China , at 19 .
During the conference , however , Harirchi start out showing visible signs of irritation and reached out to get himself a tissue paper to wipe sweat off his supercilium , while Rabiei preserve with the message thatthe res publica has the outbreak under control .
Harirchi then made his own part of the statement , continuing to mop up a significant amount of sweat .
Now , the minister has confirm that he has been infected with COVID-19 , and has self - isolated to intercept it from spread to others . From closing off , he recorded a television anticipate his workfellow will finish the spread of the disease , and he will rejoin the fight once he has find .
Iran currently has 139 account cases of the computer virus and19 decease , the most death outside of China , where 2,715 multitude have died so far . With holy website that attract millions to the country , there are fear that if the outbreak is not controlled it could potentially induce an outbreak in the Middle East , BBC reports .
The numeral of Death has caused headache amongst expert that we may not be arrest an precise picture of the true graduated table of the outbreak . The majority of reported instance from the country have been the aged and those who are croak ie . those with a weakened immune system .
" It seems like we ’re hearing about the gratuity of the berg and miss that chunk underneath who may be immature and may not be especially unwell , " Dr Nathalie MacDermott , an expert in infectious diseases at King ’s College Londontold the BBC .
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that the US had concerns that the number of character in Iran may be much higher than reported .
“ As of yesterday afternoon , Iran was 2d only to China in coronavirus deaths,”CNS reports Pompeo say . “ All nations , include Iran , should tell the truth about the coronavirus and cooperate with external help organizations . ”
With the current 139 confirmed cases and 19 deaths , that would put the human death rate at around 12 per centum , far high than anywhere else , where the rate has beenbetween 1 and 2 percentage . Either the melodic phrase is much mortal there , or the routine of infect is indeed eminent than has been reported .
