{"id":709,"date":"2020-03-27T16:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intv.pk\/coronavirus-death-toll-in-iran-rises-to-2378\/"},"modified":"2020-03-27T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:58:30","slug":"coronavirus-death-toll-in-iran-rises-to-2378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Death toll in Iran rises to 2,378"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intv.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ea6532f8bff60e8313bd67c1cf9b3e39_M.jpg\" alt=\"Death toll in Iran rises to 2,378 due to coronavirus\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said on Friday that number of deaths in Iran due to the coronavirus have reached 2,378, with 144 people dying in the past 24 hours.<\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedFullText\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The total number of confirmed cases of the disease increased by 2,926 to 32,332, he told state TV, adding that 2,893 of the patients are in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Iranian official said in a televised news conference on Thursday, that Iran launched an intercity travel ban to curb the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move came a day after Iran&rsquo;s government spokesman warned the country might face a surge of cases in the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials have complained that many Iranians ignored appeals to stay at home and cancel travel plans for the Persian New Year holidays that began on March 20.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;Those who have travelled for the Iranian New Year holidays should immediately return to their cities without making any stops in other cities on their way back home,&rdquo; said Hossein Zolfaghari, a member of Iran&rsquo;s national headquarters for fighting the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The authorities have called on Iranians to avoid public places and stay at home, while schools, universities, cultural and sports centres have been temporarily closed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said on Friday that number of deaths in Iran due to the coronavirus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}