'I have coronavirus': Iranian deputy health minister reveals results

Iraj Harirchi said he has contracted the coronavirus and placed himself in isolation, a day after appearing feverish at a press conference in which he downplayed its spread and said mass quarantines were unnecessary. He said it showed coronavirus was a ‘very democratic virus’. ‘It does not distinguish between poor and rich,’ he said.

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