Iran’s high diplomat has contracted COVID-19, state media shops reported at this time.
International Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian discovered on Monday that he examined optimistic for the coronavirus. He’s in good health and quarantining at dwelling, the place he’s persevering with to work, the semi-official Tasnim Information Company reported.
Greater than 5 million individuals in Iran have gotten COVID-19, making Iran one of many hardest hit international locations within the area.
Day by day circumstances have been dropping not too long ago, nonetheless. Iran is presently averaging round 7,000 cases a day. The depend has been steadily falling since a excessive of greater than 28,000 circumstances a day in August, in response to information from Reuters. Iran has a inhabitants of greater than 80 million.
Iran’s vaccine rollout was repeatedly delayed earlier this 12 months, however massive swaths of the inhabitants at the moment are getting the vaccine. Greater than 60% of Iranians have received at least one vaccine dose, in response to the Oxford College-based Our World in Information.
Amir-Abdollahian is a significant participant in Iranian international coverage, currently engaged on the Iranian nuclear talks.
