Ten new cases of coronavirus reports in Iran, one dead: health ministry

IRAN: Iranian’s Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur confirmed that 10 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in Iran, one of whom has died.

The new numbers announced by the health ministry, on Saturday bring the total number of cases of the new coronavirus in the country to 28, with five of the total having died.

Earlier, on Friday two patients died of coronavirus infection, while 13 new cases have emerged in Iran, the health ministry confirmed.

The COVID-19 outbreak first appeared in Iran on Wednesday, when officials said it killed two elderly people in Iran’s Qom city.

The deaths were placed in the list of the first confirmed deaths from the coronavirus in the Middle East.

Citing the details he said the newly reported coronavirus cases included seven in Qom, four in Tehran, and two in Gilan on the Caspian Sea coast.

Jahanpour tweeted: “Most of the cases are still either Qom residents” or were people who had come from Qom to other provinces “in recent days and weeks”, he added.

بر اساس آخرین گزارش ها آزمایشگاهی، ابتلای ۱۳ نفر دیگر از جمله ۷ نفر در #قم، ۴ نفر در #تهران، ۲ نفر در #گیلان تایید شده است.
متاسفانه از این جمع ۲ نفر جان خود را از دست داده اند.
اغلب موارد کماکان از ساکنین قم بوده یا سابقه مراجعت از قم در روزهای و هفته های اخیر را داشته اند.

— Kianush Jahanpur, MD ???????? (@drjahanpur) February 21, 2020

He added that Iran had so far received from the World Health Organisation four shipments of medical kits used to detect COVID-19.

Minister of Health Dr. Fahrettin Koca held a phone conversation with Said Namaki, the Minister of Health of Iran. Mr. Namaki declared that among 753 outpatients, they made 285 laboratory COVID-19 specific tests, where 18 were confirmed positive.

— T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı (@saglikbakanligi) February 21, 2020