The USA is almost at 3 million total infections, 44,000+ infections a day, 132,000+ total deaths and 1.2 million recoveries, 1.5 million active cases
Overall Covid-19 cases in the world seem to be growing or lingering in other countries. Israel is now experiencing a second wave which is worse than the first.
Chart is from the following site:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Iran reports new record one day Coronavirus death toll
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...july-4-fete-live-updates-200704231820246.html
Iran issues mandatory mask order after Coronavirus death toll surges
According to this article:
https://globalnews.ca/news/7140822/iran-masks-mandatory-coronavirus/
Fears persist that Iran’s actual death toll from the virus may be nearly double its reported figures, as a parliamentary report in April suggested. Masoud Mardani, a member of the country’s coronavirus task force, recently said that sampling from random antibody tests suggest that 18 million Iranians have so far been afflicted by the virus, without elaborating
Also, reading that article it seems that alot of Iranians simply don't care and aren't taking necessary precautions to avoid the spread of the virus. Hopefully this new mandatory mask law makes a positive difference.
https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-CA&mid=/m/02j71&gl=CA&ceid=CA:en
This Google site is really good with an interactive map. Iran's map is quite detailed, showing infection rates across various provinces.
Looking at this map I notice that, for some reason, for countries like Egypt, Russia or Turkey for example, you only see one big dot, while for others like Iran, you see smaller dots spread out across various provinces, so more detail. This is probably dependent on the level of detailed data that each country is willing or unwilling to release.
In other news Iran's currency seems to be sliding lower and lower against the dollar.
Iran's Rial Hits New Historic Low Against US Dollar, Other Currencies
The Iranian currency rial fell to new lows against the U.S. dollar in trading on Sunday at Tehran’s exchange market, going above the 220,000 rial to the dollar mark.
The battered currency was trading above 210,000 a day earlier and the Sunday, July 5 drop was almost 8,000 rials. The euro traded at 247,950.
Iranian officials describe the recent steep fall of the rial as temporary and ascribe it to “psychological operations against Iran to trigger unreal concerns” among the people and traders.
However, the rial has fallen 3,000-fold since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, when the dollar was equal to just 70 rials.
An economy growing too slowly for decades coupled with international and U.S. sanctions in the past decade and misguided fiscal policies have hurt rial’s value, which has dropped 24-fold just in the last ten years.
Mehr news agency reported that the devaluation was discussed in Iran’s parliament on Sunday and lawmakers blamed the crisis on “wrong domestic policies”. The parliament with a clear hardliner majority holds President Hassan Rouahni’s administration responsible.
Since May 2019, strict U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil exports have severely restricted its foreign currency income and the government has been forced to repeatedly withdraw funds from state reserves.
Although some observers believe that the government is benefiting from the devaluation of its currency since it is the main supplier of dollars and that the Central bank is manipulating the market, it is unlikely the devaluation of any currency would be helpful for any government. Devaluation leads to runaway inflation and can lead to political volatility in the country.
Article above was from the site
https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-ri...inst-us-dollar-other-currencies/30706985.html