Coronavirus: Iran's deputy health minister tests positive as outbreak worsens - BBC News

There are now more than 80 thousand cases of corona virus, this graph says in 36 countries, that was true a couple of hours ago, but now Algeria is reporting its first case, so the number rises to 37, the vast majority of cases, of course, in China, but there are now major clusters in South Korea, Japan and Iran, where there have been close to a hundred cases and the death toll is 15, the

outbreak

is centered around the city of Qom, near Tehran, and this man became Deputy Minister of Health. involved in a politician Rao yesterday said he would resign if accusations that the government was hiding the true death toll were true.

Well, he now he has become part of the story because he has the virus and he was involved in the most extraordinary press conference. Here he is, on the left, taking off his glasses, wiping his forehead and looking decidedly ill, he was telling those who had gathered that he doesn't believe in quarantine, that it's an old World War I measure that doesn't work. The stage may have had an opinion on that anyway, this is what the

minister

says because Lambic greatly embarrassed an aluminum Khurana incident - tab Duluth - damn head of William of Ashab more abused as the owner of the store mederma Holly is a decadent chandelier a fisherman was tank intestine aha Itachi showed a damn arm by removing bad knees hooray another cook together and tab - temptation like a starfish mache hatman in half a day I finished our movement available in the bassist Moki You saw it so much that you should go out for another shake so much, madam, it sounds like

deputy

minister

of

health

in Iran, who has the virus?

We have also heard from the president, but what about you pshaw, my dear Lucy, in my day a disaster happened in Iran, the virus spread in Iran and has involved 40 countries in In the world, I am a Kashmiri, everything was very doubtful and will spread to all countries in the world: it is an unpleasant and uninvited guest that travels everywhere. We must overcome the problem and we must not panic and then there is Mike Pompeo, clearly the US Secretary of State is not a neutral observer of what is happening, but he said the following: The United States is deeply concerned about the information indicating that the Iranian regime may have suppressed vital details about the

outbreak

in that country as of yesterday.

In the afternoon, Iran was second only to China in

coronavirus

deaths. All nations, including Iran, should tell the truth about the corona virus and cooperate with international aid organizations. And next I want to do a fascinating exchange between BBC Persians runner Brian Pobre and my colleague Simon McCoy about how the Iranians. They are seeing this virus they do not trust politicians to the point that if they even question what the vice minister of

health

has stated they say they are lying that they have a forensic doctor they want this is propaganda it is not I understood, no, no, they say that he is lying and in three days he will come out and say that I owe you.

Look, I'm recovered, it's not serious, don't worry, so the level of distrust towards Iranian politicians is so deep that they wouldn't believe anything that comes out of his mouth. He didn't know it well. It has to be sad, no, you know, no. I did, he is not the only one that an MP after Tehran would have seen that he also confirmed on Twitter that his test result was

positive

and yesterday they had a session in Parliament, so it seems that all MPs are now going to ask all those who isolate themselves if they are songs, if they do it, if they do it, that is the problem, many of these politicians and the Iranian public are so religious that they think that this is in the hands of God and they say: "I'm not going to die if I am not destined to die", so you do not believe in all these but scientific measures to contain the virus now let me take you to various places around the world, first from Iran to the Canary Islands of Spain, because this hotel in Tenerife has been closed after a visiting Italian doctor tested

positive

, hundreds of tourists have been confined to the hotel grounds and the BBC has spoken to one of them, we simply have to stay in the hotel, we cannot leave the hotel, there are increasingly more land on the sun loungers, but there is now a quarter of the hotel, the place where there has also been a confirmed. case in Barcelona let's listen to the Spanish Minister of Health there are three imported cases there is no community transmission confirmed so far in our country in Spain and therefore we continue to think that we are in a scenario of containment of the Karuna virus in Spain and that the most effective is to reinforce all these measures for early detection.

Barcelona, ​​on the Spanish coast, then we move to the Alps and the Austrian city of Innsbruck, in eastern Austria. Because this hotel has been closed, police can be seen entering the building. They have been locked down and no one is coming or going because an Italian receptionist who works there has the virus and, in fact, Italy is right at the center of this story, eleven people have died there from the

coronavirus

and there have been over 300 confirmed cases. This is the largest number of people infected in any European country and the outbreak is centered in two northern regions.

Several cities within them are on lockdown. Bethenny Bells in Milan. New cases of the virus have been reported in Sicily, Tuscany and Liguria, but the critical point remains. This cluster of cities in northern Italy is facing people who have been quarantined as authorities try to contain the virus. Now the government has called for calm, is asking people not to panic, but is facing questions about whether hospitals in these regions handled the situation. cases the right way here in Milan there has been an impact on tourism one of the main tourist attractions in the city, the Duomo, the Cathedral behind me has been closed to visitors and no services are being held and today is Mardi Gras , it's Shrove Tuesday, what should be the climax of the Venice Carnival but those celebrations have also been canceled for fear of the virus being affected Italian sports here is BBC Sport covering it on their website 5 Syria our matches will be played behind closed doors the Six Nations rugby tournaments also under pressure their doubts about Italy's match against Ireland in Dublin on March 7 and England's bye to face Italy in Rome a week later.

Both matches are still in play at the moment, but that situation is being monitored. Let's now switch from Europe and focus on Japan. Because a fourth person who was aboard that cruise ship, the Diamond Princess, died from the virus, the ship was quarantined for more than three weeks in Yokohama, not far from Yokohama, it's Tokyo, authorities there They are following the situation very closely because Of course, the Olympic Games are scheduled for July. Now the Associated Press Sports Team has gotten a major scoop before speaking with Dick Pound, a member of the International Olympic Committee, who says Tokyo Olympic organizers have until the end of May to see if this virus is under control, if It is not like this.

We're probably considering a cancellation, which of course would be a huge story. Let's listen to Jenny Hill, who is in Japan. Authorities here are increasingly concerned about the rising number of cases. Until now, the scene in Japan has largely focused on the Diamond cruise ship. Princess, which is even more, by the way, just down the coast at the port of Yokohama, although the vast majority of passengers have already disembarked after more than two weeks in quarantine, but apart from the approximately 700 cases related to that ship that the Japanese authorities now say there is. There are about a hundred and fifty cases reported in other parts of the country, they are scattered everywhere and the real concern for the health authorities here is that they are really struggling, as of course are many foreign governments, to try to determine how and where those cases occurred. people get infected, it is a growing problem and, of course, a big headache for the Japanese authorities because in five months Tokyo will host the 2020 Olympic Games, for the moment the Ministry of Health here has said that it is Too early to start talking about cancellations. but they are worried and now say the next two weeks will be crucial in determining whether the outbreak here can be contained, and of course they are looking over the water at South Korea.

Jenny is talking about South Korea, let's focus on that. In addition, because it has almost a thousand confirmed infections and eleven people have died, more than half of the cases are related to the city of Daegu and, in particular, members of a religious sect, some of whom meet in this building, the authorities now they plan to test all the members of the sect and there are more than 200,000 of them while president mu Jin has been in Daegu how long will you do the situation is very serious and therefore the declaration of a special disaster zone is not enough When in general it is all about time and speed, there must be a clear turning point as witnessed this week in the upward trend in the number of infections and Rebekah is also in danger.

I've been here for three or four days and all I've heard is the staff trying to assure me that they're trying to get this outbreak under control, but today is the first day I've heard a doctor look at me and say we're not sure. that we can do it, the reason is that this is becoming much more widespread. and while the corona virus outbreak is certainly a global story, now China, of course, remains at the center of it, the vast majority of cases are there and these are images that arrived today from Beijing and that can be see very, very quiet on the streets. very very quiet on public transport here is the World Health Organization with its assessment of the situation in China we do not know what will happen next in China we have everything so we believe we can handle them there will not be Another Luhan, we know how to handle this disease Now in all parts of the country, if it was 2-0, it would go away, that would be great, but that's not what they're planning, what they're planning is that this could stay for some time. time, maybe some time to waste a vaccine, so that we have the capacity to be able to manage it and manage society and the economy and everything else the way we need to and not lock people up to try and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and manage this now there is also a group of Chinese and American scientists have developed different vaccines for corona virus and now they want to test them, we must be cautious here without complete clinical trials we cannot be sure how effective or safe these vaccines would be, let's get the answer According to BBC global health correspondent Sheila, there are presumably a couple of dozen companies around the world racing to find a vaccine for this new corona virus.

There are, for example, several in the US. There are a couple here in Australia as well and all of them, at the moment, the most advanced ones are in animal trials, so it's still quite early, it's still record time, actually this was a virus that was only discovered and identified for the first time, I should say in January. Within hours of being first identified, China put out the genetic sequence, the cut genetic code of this virus, for researchers to examine and then they immediately started trying to find a vaccine, so this happened in record time. and There are a number of hurdles that they have to overcome before this can be used much more widely and there are a number of

tests

that they have to pass, so first they have to go to human trials and to phase one they call human .

Trials will likely begin in early spring, maybe a little later, and that's where they will test the safety of the vaccine and see how effective it is in a small number of people, maybe a couple dozen. so maybe more like 50 and then they will go to larger human trials, if they are successful they will go to larger human trials the ideal conditions to test a vaccine is in the middle of an outbreak where there are many people who can administer the vaccine and researchers can see how effective it is, so the race is truly on. A vaccine for this outbreak is unlikely to be ready before the end of the year, perhaps early next year we are still some time away, but researchers have said this is a virus that is unlikely to go away anytime soon, even If it really goes down in terms of the number of cases towards the end of the year or potentially later this year, when it warms up a little bit and maybe it will be easier for this, but for us to contain this virus, although it could be ready for this outbreak, this virus is likely to come back and will be ready for future outbreaks or at least that is the hope now as they will know if you are a regular viewer every day, we put together all the most important information about the corona virus, no matter theas long as necessary, and then we put those reports together as a clip on the BBC News YouTube page, if you missed a programme.

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