Iran rejects help from ‘foreign forces’ as virus deaths near 2,000
A temporary emergency hospital is set up in Iran Mall, tthe world's largest shopping centre complex, to treat patients infected with the Covid-19, in Tehran, Iran. – EPA pic, March 25, 2020.
A SENIOR Iranian official yesterday ruled out help from “foreign forces” to deal with the coronavirus epidemic after an offer from a France-based medical charity, as the country’s death toll from the illness neared 2,000. “Due to Iran’s national mobilisation against the virus and the full use of the medical capacity of the armed forces, it is not necessary for now for hospital beds to be set up by foreign forces, and their presence is ruled out,” Alireza Vahabzadeh, advisor to Iran’s health minister, said on Twitter.
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