Iran has over 41,000 coronavirus cases, with 2,757 deaths – government says outbreak could go on for months

• Iran currently has the seventh highest number of cases in the world.
• President Hassan Rouhani has also been accused by his political opponents for having not taken the deadly virus spread seriously earlier.
• Now, the government has warned that the outbreak could go on for months.

Iran is in the midst of a coronavirus outbreak with over 41,000 infections and 2,757 deaths. So much so that the President Hassan Rouhani has been accused by his political opponents of not having taken the deadly virus spread seriously earlier. The country now has.

Iran currently has the seventh highest number of cases in the world. Now, the government has warned that the outbreak could go on for months.


On Sunday alone, Iran announced 2,901 new COVID-19 cases.

The country celebrates the 13th day of the Iranian New Year, officially called Nature Day, which falls on April 1 this year. However, the government has asked citizens to call off all celebrations and has said that people are forbidden from entering any park or entertainment place.

Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned the US insistence on anti-Iran sanctions amid the COVID-19 outbreak as "medical terror" ,once again urging the international community to disregard the "illegal" US sanctions.

Kianoush Jahanpour, spokesman for the Iranian Health Ministry, said Iran is developing a stem-cell therapy that uses mesenchymal stromal cells to treat patients infected with COVID-19.

Doctors in Masih Daneshvari Hospital in Tehran announced that they are considering the use of COVID-19 convalescent plasma, taken from those who have recovered from the disease, to treat the newly infected patients.

On March 27, Iran announced the implementation of an one-week social distancing plan, which was later extended until April 7.

With Inputs from IANS