President Hasan Rouhai praised the Iranian nation on Saturday for confronting various challenges facing the Islamic Republic.
In comments at a Saturday meeting of the Coronavirus Fight National Headquarters, Rouhani said that the world has been fighting coronavirus pandemic for 14 months, noting that Iran, meanwhile, has been fighting cruel sanctions alongside the pandemic.
“In addition to coronavirus, the Iranian nation has been facing sanctions and unprecedented economic terror for more than three years.”
Rouhani hailed the Iranian nation for withstanding these challenges, as he praised sacrifices by Iranian health sector.
The Iranian President, meanwhile, said that a new wave of COVID-19 infection has started in two provinces of the country.
He also warned that a failure to abide by the protocols would cause the new wave to spread into other provinces.
Rouhani noted that one of the administration’s main priorities in the four remaining months of his tenure is to fight against and contain the pandemic.
Highlighting the efforts to develop homegrown vaccines for the coronavirus, the Iranian president said Tehran has also devised plans to purchase vaccines from abroad.
3-Digit Number
The daily death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran soared to above 100 on Friday, returning to a three-digit number for the first time in the new Iranian calendar year that began on March 21.
In its daily press conference, Iran’s Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said on Saturday that some 123 more Iranians have died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours bringing the total deaths to 62,999.
Some 11,420 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, some 1,060 of whom have been hospitalized, she added.
Source: Iranian media
