Iran's COVID-19 Outbreak Accelerates

The BNO Newsroom reported on Twitter that as of October 9, 2020, Iran's deputy health minister: 'Due to the large number of coronavirus outpatients and patients, hospitalization of non-emergency patients is not allowed until further notice.'

According to the BBC reporting on October 7, 2020, Health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said Iran's total of coronavirus related fatalities since February has reached 27,658, and the number of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases is now 483,844.

On September 25, 2020, the Russian Direct Investment Fund said it is in talks with a number of countries, including Iran, about the possibility of locally-producing the Sputnik-V vaccine to reduce the number of coronavirus infections.