{"id":67314,"date":"2020-03-27T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T02:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67314"},"modified":"2020-03-27T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T02:19:06","slug":"covid-19-iran-reports-157-new-deaths-imposes-intercity-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67314","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Iran reports 157 new deaths, imposes intercity ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/iran.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/iran.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TEHRAN, March 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Iran announced 157 new deaths from coronavirus, raising the official number of fatalities to 2,234, as it slapped a ban on intercity travel to try to curb the spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour also said that 2,389 new cases have been confirmed in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of declared infections in one of the world\u2019s wost-hit countries to 29,406.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFortunately, until today 10,457 of those infected have recovered and been discharged from hospitals,\u201d he told a news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jahanpour said that the spread of the new coronavirus and its rate of infection was \u201cgrowing steadily\u201d in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Islamic republic imposed strict new containment measures Thursday, after weeks of public appeals largely failed to prevent hundreds of thousands of Iranians taking to the roads to visit family for the Persian New Year holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThose who were planning to travel, cancel it right from this moment,\u201d said Hossein Zolfaghari, a senior official at Iran\u2019s anti-coronavirus committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThose who are out travelling should return home quickly,\u201d he added in a televised announcement while announcing details of the new measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zolfaghari said non-residents will not be allowed into cities based on their car plates and drivers\u2019 IDs, and violators will be fined and their cars impounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll official and non-official gatherings\u2026 are also banned,\u201d the official said, without elaborating further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Hassan Rouhani said in a cabinet meeting he hoped the \u201cmore strict measures\u201d would help to curb the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added the government was going to ask Iran\u2019s supreme leader for permission to draw $1 billion from its national development fund to address \u201cthe coronavirus\u2019 complexities and issues, especially the medical sector\u2019s needs\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country will also provide businesses which have not laid off workers during the outbreak with low-interest loans, Rouhani said. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, March 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Iran announced 157 new deaths from coronavirus, raising the official number of fatalities to 2,234, as it slapped a ban on intercity travel to try to curb the spread. Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour also said that 2,389 new cases have been confirmed in the past 24 hours, bringing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":67316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67314"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}