Iran Press/ Iran news: At today's meeting of the National Task Force for Fighting Coronavirus, Hassan Rouhani stated that the trend of coronavirus infection and related deaths had been declining compared to last week, but warnings had been issued for two or three southern provinces because of poor conditions.
He noted that the reason for entering the fourth COVID-19 peak was virus' mutation; if the virus had not mutated and the UK variant had not entered Iran from Iraq, the country would not have entered the fourth peak.
He pointed out that compliance with health protocols across the country had been about 67 percent, which was not an acceptable figure, and added that adherence to protocols should be above 80, 90% to overcome the disease.
"Recently, the Indian variant has infected people in some provinces, and efforts should be made to prevent this new variant from spreading to other provinces," Rouhani said.
He announced that provincial trips from Wednesday to Monday would be banned.
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