Several senior Iranian officials, the senior vice president of cabinet ministers, members of parliament, revolutionary guards, fitness personnel and fitness ministry officials, have the virus. Some of those officials have died.
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The growing number of sick people every day in Iran suggests that the fight against the new coronavirus is far from over.
“No one believes in the numbers coming out of Tehran,” Matthew Schmidt, a national security and political science expert at New Haven University, recently told Fox News. “Iran may now be the epicenter of the epidemic. The government has misrepresented and continues to misrepresent its case and death reports. But this is due to both incompetence and a cover-up.”
Meanwhile, the Iranian regime blamed the United States and blamed the Trump administration’s harsh economic sanctions for stifling its ability to fight the virus.
“The leadership of the United States cares about the Iranian people,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said Wednesday at a news convention. “They shed crocodile tears.
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Iran has applied for a $5 billion emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund to combat the epidemic. The foreign lender said it was in a position of the countries through an immediate monetary instrument.
Meanwhile, all of Iran’s neighbors have closed their borders to the Iranians, and several countries have cut off links, adding shipping in some cases, exacerbateing the regime’s economic problems.
Regional inventory markets also fell, reflecting investor considerations and global nerves as oil plummets and tourism revenues eroded through the virus.
In other parts of the region, Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon have reported deaths from the virus.
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This week, Qatar reported a large buildup of cases of the new coronavirus on Wednesday night, with 262 infected. In the Arab Gulf island country, Bahrain, cases also increased by nearly 70% this week to succeed in 189 cases shown, after around 77 new cases were shown on a Bahraini return flight from Iran.
Kuwait closed all non-essential workplaces and businesses on Thursday for two weeks, restaurants, cafes and gyms. Schools and universities have already been suspended. All advertising flights are suspended to Kuwait as of Friday. There are more than 70 cases of the new virus in the country.
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Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, reported seven more cases wednesday night, bringing the total number of cases to 67. In the southern tourist, the city of Luxor, 70 Egyptian staff members and guides remained quarantined on a Nile cruise called the Asara. Earlier this week, 83 foreign tourists left their 40s in shipping and returned home after testing negative for the virus.
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Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia announced an increase in cases from 21 to 45 on Wednesday night, with 12 Egyptians quarantined in Mecca. The government has suspended pilgrimages to the holiest places of Islam, forbidding all pilgrims from entering Mecca and Medina to prevent the spread of the virus.
It has also sealed the eastern province of Qatif, where more than a dozen cases are shown among its predominantly Shia population through others who have visited Iran recently.
Hollie McKay of Fox News and The Associated Press contributed to the report.