U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Iran is responsible for the emergence of coronavirus in five countries.
“The first cases of COVID-19 in at least five countries were a direct result of the Iranian regime ignoring the health of all people”, – Pompeo wrote on Twitter.
According to him, Iranian airline Mahan Air made at least 55 flights between Iran and China in February, spreading the “Wuhan virus”.
The World Health Organization on March 11 declared the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 a pandemic. According to the latest WHO data, over 292 thousand people are already infected in the world, more than 12.7 thousand have died.