Iran's parliament speaker transformed into the latest position to get the COVID-19, state TV uncovered Thursday.
Ali Larijani "was pursued for coronavirus in the wake of exhibiting certain symptoms, and as the result was certain, he is correct presently in disconnect and encountering treatment," the report said.
Larijani, 62, is close to the Iranian position and president and was reappointed in 2016 for a second term as parliament speaker. He is one of the most senior specialists to be sullied as of not long ago.
Iran has been scrambling to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus since it declared its first cases on February 19.
Earlier on Thursday, Iran had declared 124 new passings from the coronavirus, raising its total to 3,160 with more than 50,000 people polluted.
The announcement came as President Hasan Rouhani advised at an agency meeting that the country may at present battle the pandemic for one more year.
"Coronavirus can't for which we can feature a particular date and state it will be completely murdered by then," he said.
Rouhani said the disease "may be with us in best in class months, or until the end" of the current Iranian year, in March 2021.
The disease has not spared Iranian chairmen or various specialists.
At any rate 23 of the overseeing body's 290 people have attempted constructive for the novel coronavirus up to this point, state news office IRNA said on Tuesday.
COVID-19 has moreover killed at any rate 12 serving or past government specialists, as showed by true reports.
Following a long time of quitting compelling a lockdown or seclude measures, Tehran picked seven days back to blacklist all intercity travel until in any occasion April 8.
There is no official lockdown inside Iran's urban regions, regardless of the way that the governing body has again and again requested that Iranians stay at home to contain the spread of the disease.
Iran has closed schools and universities similarly as four key excursion areas, including the Fatima Masumeh Shrine in Qom, Iran's point of convergence for the disease.
It has also weakened travel, dropped the standard step by step Friday supplications and quickly shut parliament.
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