Tehran (IP) - Iranian Deputy Health Minister announced the screening of more than 10 million people to find patients with Covid-19 disease.

Iran Press/Iran news: Iran's Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi said on Sunday that as a result of screening 10 million people, 900 people were hospitalized due to their infection to Coronavirus.

Speaking on Sunday, Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raeisi said the screening was carried out over a span of four days.

“6.5 million individuals were screened at health centers, and 3.7 million others via the online platform,” he said.

In all, 900 people were hospitalized among those who tested positive for the virus, the official said.

Raeisi warned that visiting hospitals raises the risk of infection to 40 percent, advising volunteers to register their symptoms via the salamat.gov.ir online service.

People potentially requiring hospitalization will be provided with relevant instructions by the ministry’s experts who will call them, he added.

The official also commended high participation in the screening in northern Gilan, which houses a large concentration of virus cases, saying around 76 percent of the province’s population has been screened so far.

Raisi went on saying that launching the planned screening and fighting Coronavirus is the least costly and most affordable way to cut the virus chain of the outbreak.

The new virus, a respiratory disease known as COVID-19, emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei Province late last year. It has killed nearly 5,800 people globally, and infected over 153,000 others, according to the World Health Organization.

In Iran, 13,938 people have been infected, 4,790 have recovered, and 726 have lost their lives to the infection.

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