According to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian tested positive for coronavirus on Monday and is presently quarantined.
Tehran's top diplomat is in good health and working from home, according to foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh. Since the outbreak began in February 2020, the coronavirus has infected and killed multiple Iranian government leaders. According to health ministry data, the virus has killed over 126,000 people and infected roughly six million in Iran as of Monday.
According to the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Coronavirus Resource Center, the number of persons who have died with Covid-19 over the world has topped five million, according to CNN.
At 4:50 a.m. ET on Monday, JHU's global death toll has surpassed 5,000,425 people. Covid-19 has claimed the lives of 197,116 people globally in the last 28 days, according to the research. Since it was initially discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, the number of coronavirus cases officially reported worldwide has risen to 246.7 million.
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning on Thursday that global cases and deaths are growing for the first time in two months. This, according to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is due to continued rises across Europe.
"It's again another warning that the Covid-19 pandemic is far from ended," Tedros said on Thursday, stressing that increases in Europe outnumber reductions elsewhere.
"The epidemic endures in large part because inequitable access to instruments persists," he added, noting that high-income countries had received 80 times more testing and 30 times more vaccines than low-income countries.
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