People "should cancel all travel and stay at home so that we may see the situation improving in the coming days," ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said in a televised news conference. Jahanpour also reported 1,209 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 infection, raising the total to 13,938. "The good news is that more than 4,590 of the overall confirmed cases have recovered" and the patients have been discharged from hospitals, he added. "The cases there will probably increase," the official said, calling on everyone to cease from travelling to the northeastern province. The outbreak in Iran is one of the deadliest outside of China, where the disease originated.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 15, 2020 12:11 UTC