The coronavirus has spread to several Iranian
cities, a Health Ministry official said Friday, as an outbreak that the
authorities say began in the city of Qom caused two more deaths. Iran
confirmed 13 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total in the country to
18, with four of the total having died. The majority of coronavirus
cases in Iran have been in Qom, a Shiite Muslim holy city 75 miles south
of the capital Tehran. The new cases comprised seven people diagnosed
in Qom, four in the capital Tehran and two in Gilan province, Health
Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said in a tweet. Health officials
had called for the suspension of all religious gatherings in Qom. “It’s
clear that new coronavirus has circulated in the country and probably
the source of this illness was Chinese workers who work in the city of
Qom and had traveled to China,” Health Ministry official Minou Mohrez
said, according to the official IRNA news agency. — Reuters
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