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the Iranian Ministry of Health announced Thursday that it has recorded 124 additional deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll from the coronavirus to 3,160. Iran, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic, also has 2,875 new infections, bringing the number of people officially infected with SARS-CoV-2 to 50,468 since the start of the epidemic. The increase is around 6%, against 7% the day before. “We have 3,956 critically infected patients”said Kianush Jahanpur, spokesman for the Ministry of Health. Conversely, some 16,711 people are considered to be cured.
On several occasions since the start of the health crisis, Iran has asked Washington to lift the US sanctions reinstated following Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Vienna agreement in May 2018 nuclear program of the Islamic Republic and to apply a policy against Tehran “maximum pressure”. The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, also urged Washington to reconsider its policy towards Iran.
The United States has offered humanitarian aid, rejected by the Supreme Revolutionary Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday hinted that the Trump administration could consider easing measures against Iran and other countries to help them fight the pandemic, but did not mention concrete measures .
“The United States has missed its best opportunity to lift sanctions”replied Hassan Rohani during a meeting of his government broadcast on television.
However, several countries including the United Arab Emirates, China, Britain, France, Qatar and Turkey have sent shipments of medical supplies, including gloves and masks, to Iran.
In addition, as Christophe Deloire, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders points out, “Some of the liveliest centers of Covid-19, like China or Iran, are countries where the media have failed to fulfill their function of informing citizens.”
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