TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have decided to allow “low-risk” economic activities to resume from April 11, after its daily coronavirus infection rates slowed for a fifth straight day.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said, “Restarting these activities does not mean we have abandoned the principle of staying at home.”
The president did not specify what qualified as “low risk” activities but said bans would remain on schools and large gatherings.
He further said, “A gradual return of low-risk economic activity will be permitted from next Saturday in the provinces and from April 18 in Tehran.”
The novel coronavirus claimed another 151 lives in the past 24 hours, raising Iran’s declared death toll to 3,603, health ministry spokesman Kianouche Jahanpour at his daily press briefing.
He also reported 2,483 new cases of COVID-19 infection, the fifth straight day of declining numbers, compared to a record number of 3,111 infections on March 31.
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