KHAMENEI URGES “DECISIVE” MEASURES TO CONTROL COVID-19 SPREAD IN IRAN

Thu 12 August 2021:

According to the Supreme Leader’s official website, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for “decisive” measures to cope with the recent spikes in COVID-19 cases and deaths in the country.

“The loss of more than 500 lives in one day and the grief of their families, as well as the infection of tens of thousands of people with their diseases and their medical problems, are really very painful … so we have duties to deal with it,” said Khamenei in his televised message.

He lauded the Iranian president’s one-week deadline to making decisions about the issue of coronavirus resurgence, saying that “necessary action should be decided and acted upon decisively.”

Khamenei also emphasized the importance of expanding diagnostic tests, asking the government and insurance firms to make diagnostic tests free of charge to everyone.

Moreover, vaccines, whether imported or domestically-produced, should be provided earnestly and made available to all people, he stressed.

The armed forces also should do their best to help the people in dealing with the disease control, he said, advising people “to follow the (health) directives completely so that their own lives and the health of others are not endangered.”

On Wednesday, Iran registered 42,541 COVID-19 cases, taking the country’s total infections to 4,281,217.

The government and all the institutions of the establishment, including the armed forces, must work with all their capacity to tackle the immediate issue of the COVID-19, said Raisi in the cabinet meeting, according to official IRNA news agency.

If new control measures are not implemented and vaccination is not accelerated, the Iranian health authorities have warned of an alarming situation in the country due to the resurgence of a new variant of the disease.

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