For coronavirus fears Iranian parliament suspends work

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The Iranian parliament will suspend its hearings next week amid a scourge of the coronavirus inside the country, member of the parliamentary presidium Mohammad Ali Vakili said on Friday.

"The presidium has made the decision no longer to keep hearings next week due to the threat of the spread of coronavirus," ISNA News Agency quoted him as saying. According to the lawmaker, "attention of the price range will be postponed, in all likelihood for a week".

On February 19, the Iranian Health Ministry said first cases of novel coronavirus within the country inside the town of Qom. According to authentic data, there are 388 cases of COVID-19 in Iran, with at least 34 recorded deaths.

On December 31, 2019, Chinese health officials suggested a cluster of instances of acute respiratory infection to the World Health Organization in Wuhan, an economic and industrial metropolis with a populace of 11 million. The virus - now named COVID-19 (2019-nCoV), otherwise known as the novel coronavirus - was diagnosed on January 7, 2020.

Apart from China, fifty two countries, consisting of Russia, have suggested confirmed coronavirus instances. According to the ultra-modern data, the overall quantity of folks who contracted the unconventional coronavirus in China has passed 78,800, as many as 2,788 human beings have died and over 36,100 have recovered.

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