Latest numbers announced by the health ministry bring total death toll to 724. FMTNews iran
Firefighters prepare to disinfect a street as people and pedestrians mill around.
People “should cancel all travel and stay at home so that we may see the situation improving in the coming days”, ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said in a televised news conference. “The cases there will probably increase,” the official said, calling on everyone to cease from travelling to the northeastern province.
The latest senior official infected, according to local media reports, was Ayatollah Hashem Bahtayi Golpayegani, a member of Iran’s assembly of experts which is tasked with appointing and monitoring the Islamic republic’s supreme leader. “Provinces are under no circumstances allowed to decide regarding closures,” he added, noting all decisions will be made at the coronavirus headquarters in Tehran.
The government will also give cash handouts to three million impoverished Iranian households with breadwinners working “as peddlers or those with temporary jobs” ranging from 2-6 million rials in four stages.
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