Tehran
Seyyed Hadi Khosroshahi, former ambassador of Iran in the Vatican, died Thursday after contracting coronavirus (Covid-19) at Masih Daneshvari hospital in Tehran.
Local media reported the death, although they did not specify the status of Health in which was the former Iranian 81-year-old diplomat.
With the death of Khosroshahi, who has held several diplomatic positions since the 1980s, the number of fatalities from the coronavirus in Iran amounted to 26. The spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Kianuch Jahanpur, explained to the press that there were 106 infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the number of infected Go up to 245.
The oenegé Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday accused Iran of hiding information about the spread of the new coronavirus and deplored the repression of journalists who publish independent news.
Coronavirus epidemic at a “decisive moment”
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated Thursday that the coronavirus epidemic reached a “decisive moment” and called on countries to act “quickly” to stop this “very dangerous virus”.
“We are at a decisive moment. If we act now bluntly we can stop this coronavirus. My advice is to act quickly,” he said. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a press conference.
The epidemic, which arose in December in Wuhan, China, has infected more than 78,600 people in that country, and have caused more than 2,700 deaths.
But “it is what happens in the rest of the world our greatest concern at the moment,” said the director of the WHO.
“The evidence we have shows that there seems to be no widespread transmission,” Tedros said.
But in the last two days, the daily number of contagions outside of China It has surpassed those that occur in the Asian giant.
Seven countries have registered a first case in the last 24 hours, including Brazil and Norway.
“The epidemics in Iran, in Italy and in South Korea they demonstrate what this virus is capable of, “said the head of the WHO. That demonstrates the existence of specific” outbreaks “of viral pneumonia.
At the same time, Tedros said, “several countries have not reported cases for more than two weeks,” as is the case in Belgium, Cambodia, India, Russia and Vietnam.
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