DUBAI - President Hassan Rouhani urged Iranians to continue to respect measures to guard against the new coronavirus as"low-risk" business activities resumed in most of the country on Saturday , state news agency IRNA reported.
The Islamic Republic is the Middle Eastern country worst-affected by the Covid-19 respiratory disease and has been struggling to curb the spread of the infection, but the government is also concerned that measures to limit public activities could wreck an already sanctions-battered economy. "If people become arrogant over the relatively better situation now and disregard anti-corona health measures... we will surely face a hard and heavy phase ," Health Minister Saeed Namaki said on state TV.
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