Iranian President Hassan Rouhani revealed during a meeting of the National Committee to Combat the Coronavirus (COVID-19) today, Saturday that he received a report from the Ministry of Health containing estimates of the infection of 25 million Iranians with the Coronavirus.
Rouhani added that another 30 to 35 million Iranian citizens are vulnerable to the COVID-19 infection, according to the report.
The Iranian president stated that 500 out of every 1,000 infected people in the country do not have symptoms of the disease. He pointed out that during the past 150 days of the outbreak of the pandemic, hospitals received about 200,000 patients.
He warned that this number may double over the coming period, so Iran must be prepared for the worst in hospitals. Rouhani stressed that the country is living in the second wave of the Corona outbreak.
He considered that the second wave of infections is caused by the end of the citizens' fear of the virus. Rouhani said that Iran has not yet reached collective immunity, and that everyone must cooperate in order to cut the chain of virus outbreaks.
He affirmed that the most effective way to curb the spread of the deadly virus is to wear masks, social pergence, and reduce gatherings, highlighting the way the Coronavirus infiltrated Iran.
He noted that, according to reports, the virus entered the holy city of Qom through merchants who came from the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The Coronavirus entered Kailan Province through students and athletes who were in Wuhan.
According to official data, Iran has so far recorded about 270,000 cases of Corona virus and 13,791 deaths.
On the other hand, an Iranian opposition group in exile held yesterday, Friday, its annual conference on the Internet, and two years after a failed conspiracy to bomb its conference in France.
The so-called "Paris-based National Council of the Iranian Resistance" is seeking to put pressure on the Tehran government" despite the outbreak of the Coronavirus in the country.
The council, which includes Iranian opposition groups abroad and which seeks to end the rule of clerics in Iran, used to hold an annual conference outside the French capital.
The "Iranian National Resistance Council" was behind what can be said to be the largest act of the opposition abroad, which uncovered in 2002 of Iran's nuclear program, which was secret but has been volatile since its record.
The council says it has broad support in Iran, but analysts say it is very difficult to gauge this support.
Its critics raised the question about the nature of the support it receives in the light of his conferences attended by thousands of people and the motives of those on the list of speakers, who are a group of former politicians and legislators.
On Friday, 18 US Senators and Rudy Giuliani, the personal lawyer for US President Donald Trump, declared support to Iranian council in exile.
The Coronavirus pandemic has caused the National Council of the Iranian Resistance this year to be a virtual one, and the it said that the conference was connected to thirty thousand places in Iran and a hundred other countries in the world.
"The task of our generation is to overthrow the mullahs' regime and restore the rights that are lost to all of the Iranian people," said Maryam Rajavi, leader of the council, during the six-hour conference.
The virtual conference of the council comes two days after an order to try an Iranian diplomat and three other people in Belgium for their role in the failed plot to bomb the council conference outside Paris in 2018.
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