The situation in the country is compared to a full-scale war, in which the opponent is the coronavirus infection COVID-19.
This was reported by the news agency “Tasnim” on Wednesday, March 11.
According to the media, the Iranian authorities have decided to send ground forces to combat the spread of the epidemic in the Islamic Republic. The command said that field hospitals across the country had been prepared to receive patients. At the moment, there are about thirty of them. They are all ready to assist the Ministry of Health.
Commenting on the situation, General Behzad Mohamen, head of the Medical Department of the Iranian Army, said the army is proud to be able to support the medics. According to him, the situation in the country really reminds of war, only with the epidemic as an enemy.
As News Front reported earlier, cases of new coronavirus infection were first recorded in China late last year. As of today over 80 thousand cases and more than 3 thousand lethal outcomes have already been confirmed in China.
Coronavirus has been registered in other countries as well. In the Middle East, Iran has become the epicenter of the epidemic, where more than 6.5 cases have been registered. In Europe, the situation is most severe in Italy, where the number of cases has exceeded 10 thousand people.