Iran Press/ Iran news: In response to IP's question on based on what criteria Red, Yellow, and White regions are announced and what protocols are required to reopen holy shrines and religious places, deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi stated the three regions are defined based on the number of hospitalization and death toll.
"The main focus is on white zones, not provinces, the cities which during fourteen days have less than an individual in a day," Harirchi added, saying: "The zones in which less than one person hospitalized In less than a day, for a period of 14 days, the reopening in these areas will be done if the National Task Force on Combating Corona approves that."
"The Mosques, Sports centers, or driver training centers in the white zones will be opened based on developing hygienic protocols, for example, those who do praying at mosques are obliged to take their personal prayer mats with themselves and keeping standard distance, the time is not decent to hold religious speeches," Harirchi said.
The official elsewhere noted that places where the amount of infections is high labeled as red zones. There are 72 cities and places where the number of infections is moderate, not low or on high, labeled as yellows zones which reach 448 cities.
Referring to developing hygienic protocols Harirchi stated that the colored regions are on the edge, by any negligence even in the white ones we will back to square one.
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