In a video broadcast by the Iranian news agency, IRNA, Iranian Deputy Minister of Health, Iraj Haririji, announced today, Tuesday, that he had been infected with the new mutated Corona virus.

It is noteworthy that Haririji spent the past days trying to reassure citizens that the authorities are controlling the situation.

The Iranian Ministry of Health announced today that the number of new cases of the new mutated Coronavirus in the country has risen to 95, of whom 16 have died.