Rise in COVID Cases After Nowruz Holidays
TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iran is facing a fourth major wave of COVID-19 infections shortly after millions travelled during the Persian new year holidays.
Two of Iran’s 32 provinces – Alborz, close to capital Tehran, and Ilam to the west of the country – have been confirmed by the country’s health ministry to be facing a fourth wave. Seven more, including Tehran, are on the verge, it said.
"If we don’t have the necessary considerations, we might face this wave in other provinces as well. So we need to be careful,” President Hassan Rouhani said during a televised session of the national anti-coronavirus task force on Saturday.
Iran has reported more than 1.9 million coronavirus cases since it announced its first in February last year. About 63,000 people have died amid inhuman sanctions which have hampered the country’s efforts to control the pandemic.
The resurgence in the cases, which health officials say will soon be accompanied by a spike in hospitalizations and deaths, comes two weeks after Nowruz, the Iranian new year, on March 20.
Nowruz is followed by long holidays during which Iranians traditionally travel, mostly to scenic provinces to the north near the Caspian Sea, and visit family and friends.
Even as health officials said they opposed travels this year, people were officially allowed to visit hundreds of cities across the country that were not classified as "red” or "orange” on a color-coded scale denoting the severity of outbreaks.
Public transport was not banned and fines, set to deter road travel using private vehicles to prohibited cities, were not hefty, leading to some travelers considering them part of travel expenses.
Alireza Raeisi, a spokesman of the national anti-coronavirus task force,
states under clannish or cultish dictators (e.g. Saudi Arabia), and created the Wahhabi cult in Arabia, the Bahai cult in Iran, and the Qadiyani cult in the Subcontinent to splinter Muslim ranks. The leading example in this regard is the weakening and destruction of the Ottoman Empire that was established in 14th century and came to an end in 1922. Here the main interest of the Europeans and later the USA was sedition among Muslims, control of the Middle East and plundering of oil, because modern industries and economy are dependent on it.
5. The USA is one such secular democratic state set up by the Europeans, mainly the British, during the closing decades of the 18th century. It is a land where several genocidal wars were waged against the native Amerindians (ultimately limiting them to few designated areas), and where the enslaved black Africans, following periodic massacres, finally became ‘second’ if not ‘third class’ citizens, in the modern United States dominated by a dual-party system, where independent outsiders have no chance to succeed. Deep at heart, however, these European settlers in the USA were after all Christians, so Christianity prevailed as a front religion. The US made rapid progress with modern higher education and modern industrialization, taking lead over Europe, especially since the beginning of the 20th century, when its global influence grew. After the 2nd World War its expansionist policies, including military coups and installing proxy dictator governments and rulers in various world countries, created the political and military bloc that led to cold war with the then USSR and its allies. The Russian communist bloc finally broke down in 1990 and tipped the balance, apparently in favor of the USA. Overall, in theory all the governments of Europe are established constitutionally as so-called secular democracies but in their policies and practices they have shown their severe anti-Islam prejudice.
6. Regions of the world that remained relatively isolated included China with its own civilization. With the development of modern science and technology, the Chinese too started competing with the West – first on the basis of their social communist system and now with a mixture of modern socialist-capitalist system. China has gradually emerged as great scientific and industrial power and as a major economic power at the world level. Historically, Russia proper (not the vast Russian Federation) is a part a Europe; hence all events and developments that occurred in Western Europe and the USA were slowly reflected in Russia and countries under its influence. The Russians, however, had their own language that led to their relative isolation. With the rise of Communism, they developed their communist economy which unnaturally and unethically suppressed individual human freedom. It competed with the relatively liberal and superior Western Capitalist system, before disintegrating in 1990.
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Two of Iran’s 32 provinces – Alborz, close to capital Tehran, and Ilam to the west of the country – have been confirmed by the country’s health ministry to be facing a fourth wave. Seven more, including Tehran, are on the verge, it said.
"If we don’t have the necessary considerations, we might face this wave in other provinces as well. So we need to be careful,” President Hassan Rouhani said during a televised session of the national anti-coronavirus task force on Saturday.
Iran has reported more than 1.9 million coronavirus cases since it announced its first in February last year. About 63,000 people have died amid inhuman sanctions which have hampered the country’s efforts to control the pandemic.
The resurgence in the cases, which health officials say will soon be accompanied by a spike in hospitalizations and deaths, comes two weeks after Nowruz, the Iranian new year, on March 20.
Nowruz is followed by long holidays during which Iranians traditionally travel, mostly to scenic provinces to the north near the Caspian Sea, and visit family and friends.
Even as health officials said they opposed travels this year, people were officially allowed to visit hundreds of cities across the country that were not classified as "red” or "orange” on a color-coded scale denoting the severity of outbreaks.
Public transport was not banned and fines, set to deter road travel using private vehicles to prohibited cities, were not hefty, leading to some travelers considering them part of travel expenses.
Alireza Raeisi, a spokesman of the national anti-coronavirus task force,
states under clannish or cultish dictators (e.g. Saudi Arabia), and created the Wahhabi cult in Arabia, the Bahai cult in Iran, and the Qadiyani cult in the Subcontinent to splinter Muslim ranks. The leading example in this regard is the weakening and destruction of the Ottoman Empire that was established in 14th century and came to an end in 1922. Here the main interest of the Europeans and later the USA was sedition among Muslims, control of the Middle East and plundering of oil, because modern industries and economy are dependent on it.
5. The USA is one such secular democratic state set up by the Europeans, mainly the British, during the closing decades of the 18th century. It is a land where several genocidal wars were waged against the native Amerindians (ultimately limiting them to few designated areas), and where the enslaved black Africans, following periodic massacres, finally became ‘second’ if not ‘third class’ citizens, in the modern United States dominated by a dual-party system, where independent outsiders have no chance to succeed. Deep at heart, however, these European settlers in the USA were after all Christians, so Christianity prevailed as a front religion. The US made rapid progress with modern higher education and modern industrialization, taking lead over Europe, especially since the beginning of the 20th century, when its global influence grew. After the 2nd World War its expansionist policies, including military coups and installing proxy dictator governments and rulers in various world countries, created the political and military bloc that led to cold war with the then USSR and its allies. The Russian communist bloc finally broke down in 1990 and tipped the balance, apparently in favor of the USA. Overall, in theory all the governments of Europe are established constitutionally as so-called secular democracies but in their policies and practices they have shown their severe anti-Islam prejudice.
6. Regions of the world that remained relatively isolated included China with its own civilization. With the development of modern science and technology, the Chinese too started competing with the West – first on the basis of their social communist system and now with a mixture of modern socialist-capitalist system. China has gradually emerged as great scientific and industrial power and as a major economic power at the world level. Historically, Russia proper (not the vast Russian Federation) is a part a Europe; hence all events and developments that occurred in Western Europe and the USA were slowly reflected in Russia and countries under its influence. The Russians, however, had their own language that led to their relative isolation. With the rise of Communism, they developed their communist economy which unnaturally and unethically suppressed individual human freedom. It competed with the relatively liberal and superior Western Capitalist system, before disintegrating in 1990.
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