News in Brief
Health Minister: Eighth wave of COVID to last for another 10 days
Following a surge in the number of deaths due to COVID-19, Iran’s Health Minister Bahram Einollahi said on Sunday that the eighth wave of the coronavirus will last for at least another 10 days.
During the past month, the death rate due to COVID-19 in Iran has increased significantly compared to recent months.
Saeed Karimi, the deputy director of the Iranian Ministry of Health, said earlier that a “subvariant of the Omicron variant” has become the main cause of the surge in coronavirus patients.
Thirty-nine patients passed away in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of casualties to 145,652 people.
Nine hundred and forty new patients were diagnosed, 497 of which were hospitalized.
Eight hundred and eighteen patients across the country are now hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Iranian envoy calls for paying heed to Israeli crimes
Iran’s former ambassador to Damascus and newly-appointed envoy to Armenia says those who claim to be the flag-bearers of human rights should open their eyes and watch the crimes committed by the occupying Israeli regime against the Palestinian people.
Mehdi Sobhani told the Al-Ahed news website that the time was ripe for the so-called flag-bearers of human rights to open their eyes and see the crimes of the occupying regime against worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Israeli regime is facing social and internal crises, so it wants to export its own woes to territories outside the usurped lands, Sobhani said, noting that the response by the Palestinian brothers indicates the vitality of the resistant nation of Palestine.