23 Iran MPs have coronavirus: Deputy Speaker

Home World 23 Iran MPs have coronavirus: Deputy Speaker 03-03-2020 06:06 AM Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - 23 Iranian MPs have so far tested positive for coronavirus, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Abdolreza Mesri said on Tuesday, while state media reported the death of a senior judiciary official due to the virus. Mesri did not name the MPs. Ahmad Toyserkani, an advisor to the head of the judiciary Ebrahim Raisi has died from coronavirus, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday. As of Tuesday, 77 in the country have died from the virus and there are 2,336 confirmed cases. Several officials have contracted the virus in Iran, which has the highest death toll in the world outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak. Senior Iranian politician and former advisor to current Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Hossein Sheikholeslam, has reportedly been infected with coronavirus. Expediency Council member Mohammad Mirmohammadi died from coronavirus, state media reported on Monday. Iran's Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi was reported as having coronavirus by the semi-official news agency ILNA on February 25. On Thursday, former Justice Minister and Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi was hospitalized with coronavirus symptoms. On Saturday, Masoumeh Aghapour Alishahi became the latest Iranian member of parliament to announce that she has been infected with coronavirus. *Al Arabiya

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23 Iran MPs have coronavirus: Deputy Speaker

03-03-2020 06:06 AM

Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - 23 Iranian MPs have so far tested positive for coronavirus, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Abdolreza Mesri said on Tuesday, while state media reported the death of a senior judiciary official due to the virus.

Mesri did not name the MPs.

Ahmad Toyserkani, an advisor to the head of the judiciary Ebrahim Raisi has died from coronavirus, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

As of Tuesday, 77 in the country have died from the virus and there are 2,336 confirmed cases.

Several officials have contracted the virus in Iran, which has the highest death toll in the world outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak.

Senior Iranian politician and former advisor to current Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Hossein Sheikholeslam, has reportedly been infected with coronavirus.

Expediency Council member Mohammad Mirmohammadi died from coronavirus, state media reported on Monday.

Iran's Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi was reported as having coronavirus by the semi-official news agency ILNA on February 25.

On Thursday, former Justice Minister and Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi was hospitalized with coronavirus symptoms.

On Saturday, Masoumeh Aghapour Alishahi became the latest Iranian member of parliament to announce that she has been infected with coronavirus.

*Al Arabiya

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