Less than 24 hours after holding a press conference to downplay the threat of coronavirus in a large city, Iran’s deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi publicly admitted that he had contracted the disease and would be isolating himself from others.
According to The New York Times, Harirchi denied claims Monday that coronavirus was spreading faster than the government was willing to acknowledge. Harichi also pressed back against a member of the Iranian parliament who previously claimed that 50 people had died in his city from the disease, and that an additional 10 people would die every day.
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