Kianoush Jahanpour said on Saturday 75 patients died of the virus in the past 24 hours, increasing the death toll to 8,209.
He also confirmed 2,269 new cases of COVID-19 infection, raising the totall number of cases to 169,425.
The spokesman said 2,578 patients are currently in severe condition of the disease.
So far, 1,060,126 COVID-19 tests have been taken across the country, according to Jahanpour.
President Rouhani said on Saturday the cinemas, theatres and concert halls can reopen only if they sell tickets for 50 percent of the seats and abide by all health protocols to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Speaking at a meeting of the National Headquarters for Fight against Coronavirus, President Rouhani said language, music, Quran, and cinema institutes can also reopen as of next week if they observe all health protocols.
It was also decieed that kindergartens reopen as of next week.
Following consultations between Iranian and Iraqi officials on the health protocols to contain the spread of COVID-19, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has reopened Bashmagh border crossing between Iran’s Mariwan and Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah.
The KRG had decided to close the border after a rise in the number of coronavirus patients in Penjwin district in Sulaymaniyah.
Bashmagh is a major border crossing in western Iran for land freight and travels to the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
There are two crossings between Sulaymaniyah and Iran: Parviz-Khan and Bashmagh.
Many border crossings between Iran and the neighbouring states have reopened in recent weeks in compliance with the health protocols after a closure in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Hassan Rouhani on Saturday warned that the disease is here to stay.
“The period of the coronavirus epidemic is going to be long, and we don’t know when it will end; under such circumstances, health directives must be closely observed,” he said at a meeting of the National Coronavirus Headquarters.
He called on people to use internet platforms for their daily social activities as much as possible during the coronavirus pandemic.
He urged Iranians to do online education, shopping and other economic activities. He also advised people to avoid attending or holding wedding ceremonies or funeral processions.
He said the government is ready for any possible surge in the infections and has no shortages of medical equipment.
The president added the government will continue to support low-income families.
“Meeting the needs in the health and treatment sector to fight coronavirus, supplying necessary services to society, providing basic and essential goods, and supplying stimulus packages to low-income families are four main duties of the government, and the trend of discharging all these responsibilities is going well,” he said.
The current problems that the Iranian economy faces nowadays are big unemployment rate, low oil prices, as well as inflation. Last year the Iranian stock market has gained 225%, which is a great increase from the last few years.
The biggest struggles in the country are because of the Corona outbreak. The government encourages the privatization processes of state companies. Even the average person nowadays in Tehran has access to the stock market and everybody can trade shares or earn returns. The situation is similar in other countries as well. Even the USA faces the biggest unemployment numbers since the Great Depression.
A member of the Chamber of Commerce of Iran has mentioned that while the situation in Iran doesn’t seem good, the market is booming, but the stock market has its ups and downs, which is a very strange situation. That’s not the situation with the Tehran Stock Exchange. Since its beginnings in 1967, the stock market includes some of the major companies in Tehran, such as Iran Khodro, the famous car maker company. Even the average Iranian has noticed the rise of the stock market possibilities for the major Iranian companies.
The Stock Exchange Market lists more than half a million active traders. There are more than 12 million Iranians who have registered in the stock market to sell and buys stocks. As reported by Buy Shares, the estimated revenue is estimated to be 5% every day. Even president Hussein has mentioned the bright future of the Tehran stock market. The global situation on the stock marketplace is very chaotic, while the situation in the Tehran stock market seems to fall into place.
The booming stock market in Tehran is thanks to the company’s efforts and contribution to the current economic situation, the big shares of large Iranian corporations, as well as the business people in the country. Since the Islamic revolution in 1979, the Tehran stock market has undergone major changes. The 1990s in Iran are marked for the privation process and it’s the beginning of the privatization era in Tehran. The stock market has helped the Tehran economy to achieve this.
This Saturday the main index of Tehran Stock Exchanges reached one million. It is almost doubled since the first Coronavirus case in the country. The biggest rally is between the companies in the petrochemical, industrial, and mineral stocks in the stock exchange market. Such companies are the National Iranian Cooper Industries, the Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industry, and the Mobarakeh Steel Co. The record in the stock market has boomed since the government has announced 2 billion state assets in order to provide a solution to the COVID 19 pandemic in Iran.
Mahdi Shadnoush, the head of the Health Ministry’s management centre for transplantation and special diseases, told IRNA on Saturday that the families of some CF patients complain about the lack of foreign brands of this medicine. He said the domestic brands of this drug are available and are given to these patients free of charge, but the import of the foreign ones is not possible under US sanctions.
“In general, the import of foreign drugs is difficult and Pancreatin is no exception, but according to Iran’s Food and Drug Administration, the import of this medicine is on the agenda and we hope this drug will be available in the near future,” he added.
Shadnoush further noted that the Iran-made brand of this drug is available to CF patients. However, as the families of these patients are requesting the use of foreign drugs, we are pursuing its import; however, due to sanctions and the problem of currency transfer, it has not been possible to import it yet, he went on to say.
According to this Iranian health official there are 1,100 CF patients in Iran.
CF (cystic fibrosis) is a gastrointestinal disease. Due to their inability to absorb fat-soluble vitamins, CF patients take vitamins K, D, E and A on a daily basis, and 4 to 5 capsules of Pancreatin per day to absorb vitamins and minerals. These capsules contain digestive enzymes to help the patient’s body take vitamins, according to the report by IRNA.
Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf quoted a verse from Holy Quran on his Twitter page implying that any compromise with infidels is disallowed.
«فَلا تَهِنُوا وَ تَدْعُوا إِلَى السَّلْمِ وَ أَنْتُمُ الْأَعْلَوْنَ وَ اللَّهُ مَعَکُمْ وَ لَنْ یَتِرَکُمْ أَعْمالَکُمْ»
مبادا در مبارزه کوتاهی کنید و به کافران پیشنهاد سازش دهید. شما بالاترید چون خدا با شماست و مطمئن باشید نتیجۀ اعمالتان (مقاومت) را بیکموکاست به شما میدهد. pic.twitter.com/Cr53IsTfIn
— محمدباقر قالیباف (@mb_ghalibaf) June 5, 2020
“May you not fall short in the fight (against infidels) and be aware not to offer them a compromise. You are higher because God is with you and you can be sure that He will show you the result of your deeds (resistance),” reads his tweet, which is the translation of the verse he quoted.
Last week, the new parliament speaker in his first major speech at parliament had stressed any negotiation with the United States would be futile.
On Friday, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani vehemently rejected talks with Washington.
The reactions came after Donald Trump on Thursday thanked Iran for releasing Michael White who was imprisoned in the Islamic Republic. He also called on Tehran to start negotiations with his administration before 2020 Presidential election.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) said on Friday that US President Donald Trump has failed in many arenas and his team are making fake victories for him.
Ali Shamkhani wrote in a tweet that Trump’s situation is so bad, both in the international arena and in the corona management as well as regarding racial profiling inside the United States that his team has no choice but to produce fake successes.
“The exchange of prisoners is not the result of negotiation, and no negotiation will take place in the future,” reads Shamkhani’s tweet.
#Trump‘s situation is so disaster; in international arena, catastrophe of Covid management & racist arson inside the US. His team has no choice but to portray false successes for him. The exchange of prisoners is not the result of negotiations & no talks will happen in future.
— علی شمخانی (@alishamkhani_ir) June 5, 2020
Earlier, Donald Trump stated in a tweet that the release of Michael White shows a deal is possible with Iran.
Hesameddin Ashena said in a tweet on Friday that Iran knows US President Donald Trump will leave office in November, so he needs to give more concessions than his predecessor Barack Obama.
“You are going down on November 3 and we know that. So you’ll need to offer much more than Obama did!” reads his message.
The tweet came shortly after Donald Trump said in a tweet “Thank you to Iran, it shows a deal is possible!”
Referring to the release of a Navy veteran from Iranian custody, Trump said that a pact with Tehran could be tenable.
Then in another tweet the US president said “So great to have Michael home. Just arrived. Very excited. Thank you to Iran. Don’t wait until after US Election to make the Big deal. I’m going to win. You’ll make a better deal now.”
Right after Trump’s tweet, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif replied to him saying that “We achieved humanitarian swap *despite* your subordinates’ efforts. And we had a deal when you entered office. Iran & other JCPOA participants never left the table.
Your advisors—most fired by now—made a dumb bet. Up to you to decide *when* you want to fix it.”
Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said on Friday as it has been repeatedly stated the French officials must be aware that the judicial processes in Iran are followed up independently.
Accordingly, he added, the case of Iranian citizen Fariba Adelkhah has been subject to an independent and fair judicial process.
“She has been convicted with regards to the crime she has committed, and is serving her sentence,” he noted.
“Political pressures and propaganda campaigns cannot disrupt the carrying out of the sentence. We hope that the French authorities will pay attention to this,” added Mousavi.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian asked Iran to release Fariba Adelkhah who is serving her six-year sentence on national security charges.
“This ongoing situation can only have a negative impact on the bilateral relations between France and Iran, and can only significantly reduce the trust between our two countries,” he added.
This comes as on Thursday Tehran freed US Navy veteran Michael White who was detained since 2018.
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