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Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Tests Positive For Coronavirus After Rubbishing Claims Of An Epidemic
Swarajya Staff
Feb 25, 2020, 06:40 PM | Updated 06:40 PM IST
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Iran's deputy health minister, and department spokesman, Iraj Harirchi, has announced that he has tested positive for Coronavirus as the country increasingly emerges as the epicentre of the epidemic outside China.
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A visibly unwell Iraj Harirchi (left) had gone on TV yesterday (24 February) claiming that Iranian government was getting the coronavirus outbreak under control. He had also denied that the authorities were lying about the scale of the outbreak.
Iraj Harirchi, Iran's deputy health minister, went on TV yesterday (left) to insist the Iranian government was getting the #coronavirus outbreak under control.
— Raf Sanchez (@rafsanchez) February 25, 2020
Today it was announced Harirchi himself has the virus. pic.twitter.com/dO0RgLyydk
Iran has reported 95 confirmed Covid-19 cases since last week, but the actual number is believed to be a lot higher.
A member of parliament for Qom, Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani however accused Iran's health ministry of not being transparent about the outbreak, which authorities say has killed 12 people.
He claimed that Qom, which is at the centre of Iran's Covid-19 outbreak, alone has seen more than 50 deaths. The authorities have so far refused to quarantine the city, which is a major destination for Shia Muslim pilgrims and a centre of Shia learning.
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