TEHRAN: Iran said its novel coronavirus caseload surpassed one million on Thursday , as the authorities consider easing restrictions in many parts of the Middle East's hardest hit country.
But some officials - including Health Minister Saeed Namaki - admit the government figures are much lower than the actual numbers. Faced with the dual challenge of US sanctions and the pandemic, however, they have never imposed full lockdowns, for fear they would cause further damage to Iran's economy.on the Islamic republic since 2018, when he unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal.
Minou Mohraz, a medical epidemiologist with the National Coronavirus Control Committee, announced this week that the animal testing phase had been completed.But Namaki said that if the step was successful,"we will be one of the major producers in the region by early next spring". "The situation in Iran is pretty bad ... unfortunately we're suffering from something more than the rest of the world is, and that is an economic war," he told an online forum hosted by Italy.
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