In a letter to Alireza Raeisi, the spokesman for the National Headquarters for Coronavirus Control, Namaki stressed the need to raise the issue and take immediate decisions to suspend flights to and from Moscow.

Flights to Moscow will be suspended if the National Headquarters for Coronavirus Control decides.

A few days ago, Russia’s Gamaleya National Center scientists claimed to have identified a new variant of the coronavirus, naming it after the national capital since the strain was first found in Moscow as cases across the country spiked.

Russia has witnessed a spurt in COVID-19 cases, 89.3 percent of whom were infected with the delta virus, known as the Indian coronavirus.

So far, the country has reported 5,193,964 new cases and over 126,000 fatalities; the highest number of cases and deaths were from Moscow.

“A new mutation has arrived, a new strain is active. It’s more aggressive, it’s harder to recover from, it spreads faster. It’s much more likely to penetrate a person’s immune system,” Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, according to the RIA news agency.

Iran Civil Aviation Organization announced on April 28 that the country has extended travel restrictions on flights to and from 15 countries due to a surge in the coronavirus disease.

The Islamic Republic has banned flights to India, Pakistan, France, Botswana, Brazil, Czech Republic, Iraq, Estonia, Ireland, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Slovakia, South Africa, and Zambia aimed to curb the disease, according to the announcement.

Iranian citizens without a negative coronavirus PCR test result are subject to medical screening and quarantine for 14 days at their own expense, while non-Iranian nationalities without the certificate are not allowed to enter the country.

All passengers are subject to the medical screening on arrival, and if they are suspected of having the disease, non-Iranian nationalities will be quarantined at a place specified by the Health Ministry at their own expense and Iranian citizens will need to self-isolate for 14 days.

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Iran health minister, Saeed Namaki on Monday sent a letter to the Health Ministry’s department of research and technology, urging that the researchers in all medical universities across the country should carry out medical research on COVID-19.

The minister asked the academic research teams to focus on various issues relating to the novel coronavirus, such as the contagion rate, demographic factors, efficiency of medication therapy, detection of the main sources of infection, treatment strategies, the behavior of COVID-19 and possible mutation of the virus, and effects of social behavior on the spread of the disease.

Namaki said the results of such research programs will help the medical society adapt and revise the practical plans in the fight against the new coronavirus.

The Health Ministry announced on Monday that the number of people who have died from the coronavirus in Iran has risen to 237 and the total number of confirmed cases to 7,161. At least 2,394 people have recovered from the disease in the country so far.

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