Iran launched a campaign on Saturday to motivate a reluctant public to use face masks as the country faces a sharp increase in infections and deaths from the coronavirus.
FILE PHOTO: An employee of a stock brokerage firm wearing a protective face mask monitors stock prices on her computer, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease , at a brokerage house in Tehran, Iran, May 12, 2020. WANA /Ali Khara via REUTERS
Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi told the Iran’s Young Journalists Club semi-official news website that in one province, 120 people had been infected after attending a wedding party. He did not identify the province. “I desperately - and in a friendly way - plead with people to cooperate in observing medical protocols for their own sake and that of others,” Harirchi said.
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