• Nader Tavakoli, deputy head of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce (NCCT) in Tehran: The COVID-19 status in Tehran is still red. We still have 7,000 COVID-19 patients hospitalized, and given the mutated variants, a fifth outbreak of the disease is quite possible. (ISNA news agency, May 16, 2021) • Alireza Reisi, the spokesperson for … Continue reading Iran: COVID-19 Death Toll in 541 Cities Exceeds 290,100