Iranian Government Loses Control Over Coronavirus

The spokesman of the Iranian Ministry of Health said the spread of the coronavirus in Tehran, the capital city of Iran, may resume its spike in it. He linked those sinister projections to the thick movement of people in Tehran and its outskirts.

Kianoush Jahanpour, stated during a news conference held on Monday, that the rate of spreading of the coronavirus outpaced one of the virus causes H1N1.

He pointed out the heavy traffic in the major cities and thick crowds there will bring a new wave to those cities within ten days. Jahanpour stressed that is a horrible matter.

On the other hand, Ali Reza Zali, head of Committee of Fighting the coronavirus in Tehran, warned that the government lost the control over the virus in the capital. The deadly virus becomes a pandemic there.

He revealed that sweeping infections make it very hard to expect the limits of the outbreak over the weeks to come.

Zali went on to say that disregarding the warnings of the government in the capital increase the infections by higher daily percentage.

According to the latest statistics, more than 60,500 people caught the infection and 3,739 died of the coronavirus.

However, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani warned that "the new way of life" in Iran was likely to be prolonged, as its declared death toll from the novel coronavirus rose to 3739.

The Islamic republic is one of the countries worst-hit by the virus, which first originated in China.

Iran announced its first infection cases on February 19, but a senior health official has acknowledged that the virus was likely to have already reached Iran in January.

At his daily news briefing, health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 123 more people in Iran had died from the virus in the past 24 hours.

"We must prepare to live with this virus until a treatment or vaccine is discovered, which has not yet happened to date," President Hassan Rouhani said in a cabinet meeting.

"The new way of life we have adopted" is to everyone's benefit, he said, adding that "these changes will likely have to stay in place for some time".