Iran Health Ministry: Most of Provinces in Red Alert of COVID-19
Iran Health Ministry: Most of Provinces in Red Alert of COVID-19
Iran’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday that most of the country’s provinces are classified as “red” due to the spread of the coronavirus.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday that most of the country’s provinces are classified as “red” due to the spread of the coronavirus as the health officials have warned about a third wave of the outbreak.

“Red” is the highest level in the country’s color-coded risk scale. Iran has opted for a color-coded system of white for low-risk parts of the country, yellow for medium-risk and red for high-risk areas.

The ministry’s spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said that provinces of Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, East Azarbaijan, South Khorasan, Semnan, Qazvin, Lorestan, Ardebil, Khuzestan, Kermanshah, Gilan, Bushehr, Zanjan, Ilam, Khorasan Razavi, Mazandaran, Alborz, West Azarbaijan, Markazi, Kerman, North Khorasan, Hamedan and Yazd are on the red alert, according to IRNA.

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Hormuzgan, Fars and Golestan provinces are also on alarming situation.

Recently, Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi warned that if the current course continues, the death toll will reach 45,000.

He said the whole country is on red alert as daily deaths and cases increased at an alarming rate.

“The color classification doesn’t make sense anymore. We no longer have orange and yellow. The entire country is red,” Harirchi said on television on September 18.

The ministry’s spokeswoman said 184 people lost their lives due to the coronavirus from Tuesday to Wednesday, bringing the total death toll to 24,840.

Lari added that the number of the positive cases rose by 3,605 to 432,798 during the same period.

She noted that 365,846 people have been discharged from hospitals across the country and 3,948 patients are in critical conditions and are being treated in intensive care units.

Iran has been trying to contain the spread of the virus by enforcing social distancing measures and making face masks mandatory in public places since the outbreak of the virus in the country in February.

But, recent holidays in the country, during which many people traveled to other cities, led to the increase of new cases in the country.

  • source : Iran Daily