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TEHRAN: Iran‘s president Hassan Rouhani on Saturday estimated as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the outbreak’s beginning, as he urged the public to take the pandemic seriously, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
Hassan Rouhani cited a new Iranian Health Ministry study in offering the unprecedentedly high numbers.
Rouhani also said about 30 to 35 million will be infected to the virus in the coming months. “We have to estimate that 30 to 35 million people will be exposed to the virus, which is very important”, Rouhani added. Iran’s population is arou