TEHRAN, Iran – Iran recorded its worst day of new deaths since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with 337 deaths recorded Monday.
This grim level represents an increase from the previous record of 279 deaths in a day without getting married. The Ministry of Health also announced 4,251 new infections, bringing the total to 534,630.
Deaths have soared in recent weeks as the government struggles to involve the spread of the virus months after the onset of the pandemic. Health officials say the capital, Tehran, is running out of extensive care beds.
The Islamic Republic emerged at the start of the pandemic as the global epicenter of the virus and has since experienced the worst epidemic in the Middle East, with a death toll exceeding 30,000 this week. The government has resisted a general blockade to save its devastated economy. , already weakened by unprecedented US sanctions.
As the death toll soared, overshadowing the highs recorded in the spring amid the worst epidemic, the government began to tighten restrictions. The government ordered the closure of newly reopened schools and universities, as well as museums, libraries, beauty salons and other public facilities. Tehran last month, and imposed a mask order outside.
Stressing the authorities’ conflicting response, the current increase comes only a few weeks after the country welcomed its 15 million academics for face-to-face teaching.
The virus has also sickened senior Iranian officials, an adviser to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and most recently the country’s atomic energy company and its vice president on budget and planning rates.
The time of the pandemic proved complicated for the Iranian economy: Trump’s leadership again imposed economic sanctions on Iran after its unilateral withdrawal in 2018 from Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers. The US administration’s resolution last week to blacklist Iranian banks that had escaped the most sanctions imposed by the United States.
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