Iran accuses 'enemies' of using virus to sabotage vote

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TEHERAN (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader accused foreign media of trying to use a deadly coronavirus outbreak to sabotage a general election, as authorities scrambled on Sunday (Feb 23) to contain the disease.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TEHERAN - Iran's supreme leader accused foreign media of trying to use a deadly coronavirus outbreak to sabotage a general election, as authorities scrambled on Sunday to contain the disease.

It"began a few months ago and grew larger approaching the election and in the past two days, under the pretext of an illness and a virus," he said. They include the holy city of Qom where the first cases emerged as well as Markazi, Gilan, Ardabil, Kermanshah, Qazvin, Zanjan, Mazandaran, Golestan, Hamedan, Alborz, Semnan, Kurdistan and the capital, Teheran.FREE TREATMENT Health Minister Saeed Namaki said on Sunday on state television that treatment of Covid-19 cases would be free.

Mr Mohsen Hashemi, the head of Teheran's municipal council, said,"If the number of infections increases in Teheran, the whole city will be quarantined."

 

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