Authorities refrain from announcing the accurate virus tolls in Iran fearing it would unsettle the public. FMTNews
A volunteer checks temperature of a worshipper as he enters the mosque of Tehran University to pray in July.
“The Jahan-e Sanat newspaper was shut down today for publishing an interview on Sunday,” the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Mohammadreza Saadi, told IRNA. Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari rejected Mahboubfar’s remarks and said he was not a member of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce, according to IRNA.Mahboubfar, an epidemiologist, told the newspaper that authorities had detected the coronavirus in January, while Iran announced its first infections and two deaths from the virus on Feb 19.
Reuters reported in April that authorities refrained from announcing the spread of the coronavirus in Iran out of concern that it would unsettle the public ahead of parliamentary elections on February and the celebrations for the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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