Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, announced that the central bank is requesting the use of $ 5 billion in emergency financing from the IMF's fast financing tool to combat Corona. >
According to Arabia Net, this step is the first time that Iran has requested financial support from the International Monetary Fund since 1962, in a sign of the outbreak of the Corona virus in Tehran.
The Corona virus continues to hit Iranian officials, registering a rise in the number of infections in the country on a daily basis.
In a new knock on the gates of officials, the Iranian Fars Agency reported that Muhammad Javad Irani, the Supervisory and Auditing Officer at the Office of the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, and a member of the Expediency Council was diagnosed with the virus, which was classified by the World Health Organization on Wednesday as a global epidemic.
The agency also published yesterday evening a list of officials afflicted with Corona, perhaps the most prominent of which are four government ministers (Vice President and Assistant to the President for Women Affairs, and the Ministers of Industry and Tourism) and five members of Parliament.
The death of the deputy commander of the Jerusalem headquarters
To that, Iranian media reported, on Thursday, the death of Mahmoud Blark, deputy commander of the Jerusalem headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, in logistical affairs, as a result of his injury in Koruna.
It is noteworthy that the agency, which is close to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, also confirmed Wednesday evening, and after days of speculation about the health of Ishaq Jahangiri, Iranian Vice President Hassan Rouhani, that he had the virus.
In recent days, a large number of Iranian officials have been injured, as well as reports of more than 20 deputies in Parliament.
Earlier Wednesday, the spokesman of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier General Ramadan Sharif, announced the death of 5 guards from the Corona virus, pointing out that there are more than 100,000 guards working in the fight against the virus, according to the Iranian Fars News Agency. p>
highest daily toll
The Iranian Ministry of Health announced yesterday that it had recorded 63 additional deaths of the newly created Corona virus during the past 24 hours, in the highest daily toll since the authorities announced the first deaths from the virus. p>
"Based on the results of new laboratory tests, we detected 958 new cases of Covid-19, raising the total to 9,000 cases," ministry spokesman Kyanosh Jahanpur said at a televised press conference.
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