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The trajectory of coronavirus infections in Iran appears to have started a “gradual” downward trend, the government said Monday, AFP reports.
In a televised news conference, health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour reported 136 Covid-19-related deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s overall toll to 3,739.
Due to the intensification of the social distancing policy, we have seen a gradual and slow decline in the number of new cases in recent days … I hope that the strongest possible adherence to these instructions … will allow us to enter a phase of disease control and containment.
The UN’s World Food Programme is calling for an urgent $350m funding boost to help it keep going in the face of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, which it says threatens millions of people already as risk of food shortages.
In its latest weekly situation report the organisation issued a warning that humanitarian supply chains were becoming blocked by measures to contain the spread of Covid-19, just as many areas were entering their annual lean season. According to the document:
WFP is already assessing the impact of the pandemic on vulnerable communities, and estimates it may require scaling up operations to as many as 100-120 million people in 80 plus countries.
… Humanitarian supply chains are at risk as food exports are blocked, borders are closed, the price of staple foods rise, and manufacturing industries are disrupted. Many countries are entering their annual lean season when access to food is most limited and the hurricane and monsoon seasons are looming.
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