“Statistics for all provinces, without exception, show a downtrend,” TASS quoted Rouhani as saying.
According to him, this suggests that "the path chosen by ... doctors, specialists and the population turned out to be right."
The Iranian Ministry of Health reported the first cases of coronavirus infection in the country on February 19. At the moment, almost 48 thousand people are infected, more than three thousand have died.
Earlier, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that US sanctions against the Islamic Republic against the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 are "medical terrorism."