Published on : Tuesday, April 21, 2020
He said during a televised meeting of the that they have some businesses that are medium-risk, not low-risk ones, like shops in roofed places, like bazaars, or shops in a complex beside each other, like at malls.
They are considered them to be medium-risk from the beginning and it has been decided that they will start their activities from [20 April] while observing all health protocols.
Iran’s attempts to resume normal life closely will be watched by the health experts. It is the country hardest hit by coronavirus in the Middle East, with at least 5,118 people reportedly killed by Covid-19 and at least 82,000 confirmed infections that have led to quarantine measures and a shuttering of public and commercial life like those in the west.
The economy has been damaged already due to the shutdown of business and there is deep recession because of low oil prices, harsh United States sanctions and persistent incompetence and corruption.
Nassim Assefi a global health physician who worked in Iran said that the social distancing in poor countries can cause death due to starvation too.
Iran finds is going through the same pressures as leaders in much of the world, who are attempting to balance a growing clamour from the public to resume economic life with recommendations of health and public officials warning that while the peak of the pandemic had been reached, a resurgence of the virus is likely if social distancing measures were eased.
Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani, chairman of the capital’s municipal council said that they are concerned about another outbreak in Tehran.
Some researchers caution that Iran’s actual numbers of dead and infected may be far higher than those promulgated by a government with a long track record of opacity and distortion.
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