Alireza Zali, the head of the headquarters for the management of operations against coronavirus in Tehran

Tehran (IP) - Alireza Zali, the head of the headquarters for the management of operations against coronavirus in Tehran announced the establishment of a district-based supervisory headquarters under Tehran's municipality to fight Coronavirus outbreak in the Capital.

Iran PressIran News: According to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences on Friday, Alireza Zali noted that using district-centered capacities for screening and implementing environmental sanitation measures is important.

He stated that the volunteers should be encouraged to contribute more to the detailed services, identification, support and assistance needed in the neighborhoods, meaning that each neighborhood is assigned to a group to address all environmental concerns and health, medical, economic, social, and supportive needs of families.

Zali also announced the establishment of a district-based supervisory headquarters under Tehran's municipality, stressing the importance of rolling out a home-based health strategy to overcome the crisis, and highlighted the need to optimize the service provided by volunteers who visit the headquarters every day.

On Thursday, Iranian Health Ministry Spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour announced that so far, 50468 people in the country have definitely been infected with the coronavirus, 3160 people have died due to the disease and 16711 have recovered and discharged from hospitals across Iran.

Worldwide, the total number of infections recorded since the beginning of the outbreak surpassed more than 1 million people. Some 200,000 people have recovered globally while nearly 53,000 have died.

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