Iran Press/Iran news: Deputy Director-General of the Maritime Affairs of the Ports and Maritime Organization, regarding the measures of the organization for the prevention and control of COVID-19 disease, caused by the coronavirus, in the country's maritime transport sector, said that until further notice, it is prohibited to provide temporary commute services to foreign vessels.
Hossein Abbasnejad added that the control of the health of the crew is done by the maritime traffic control center at the ports' entry and at the harbors and before entering the port and licenses will be issued to ships to dock after the ship crew's health is certified by quarantine officers from the Health Network.
According to him, the provision of masks, gloves, disinfectants and hygiene equipment for ship guides and other ship-related personnel, readiness to the transport of coronavirus-infected and to install preventive warning banners in public are the measures to contain the new virus.
Iran's measures are after at least 619 of the 3,700 passengers of the Diamond Princess cruiseliner were infected, including 88 Americans, and six people have died while sailing off the coast of Japan.
The death toll from the COVID-19 disease, caused by the coronavirus outbreak, in Iran has risen to 43 with 593 confirmed cases.
About 84,000 people in at least 56 countries have been infected all over the world, and about 2,900 people have died of COVID-19.
The governor of Washington declared a state of emergency Saturday after a man died there of COVID-19, the first such reported death in the United States. More than 50 people in a nursing facility are sick and being tested for the virus.
In the latest development, South Korea reported 210 new coronavirus cases on Sunday afternoon local time, raising the country's total infections to 3,736, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said.
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