{"id":42626,"date":"2020-05-15T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42626"},"modified":"2020-05-15T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:25:09","slug":"tunisia-eases-lockdown-as-zero-cases-registered-in-five-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42626","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia eases lockdown as zero cases registered in five days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"49\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: Iran on Friday reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections in more than a month as it warned of clusters hitting new regions.<br \/>The Islamic republic has struggled to contain the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease since its first cases emerged in mid-February.<br \/>Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 2,102 new cases were confirmed across the country in the past 24 hours, bringing the overall total to 116,635.<br \/>That figure is the highest Iran has announced for a single day since April 6.<br \/>Jahanpour said the virus had claimed another 48 lives over the same period, raising the overall death toll to 6,902.<br \/>The southwestern province of Khuzestan remained \u201cred\u201d \u2014 the top level of Iran\u2019s color-coded risk scale.<br \/>Several more provinces could be added to that level of alert, he said.<br \/>\u201cOther provinces that we may see rising infections in are Lorestan, Sistan and Baluchistan, and East Azerbaijan,\u201d Jahanpour said in televised remarks.<br \/>The spokesman issued what he called a \u201cwarning\u201d to residents of the provinces to observe health protocols.<br \/>Lorestan lies in western Iran, East Azerbaijan in the northwest, and Sistan and Baluchistan in the southeast bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan.<br \/>Jahanpour had said on Thursday that North Khorasan province in the northeast may also be close to \u201ccritical condition.\u201d<br \/>Khuzestan is the only province so far where authorities have reimposed stringent measures like shutting businesses after a countrywide relaxation in April.<br \/>Iran stopped publishing provincial figures for the coronavirus last month.<br \/>Of those hospitalized with COVID-19, 91,836 have recovered and been discharged.<br \/>Experts both at home and abroad have voiced skepticism about Iran\u2019s official figures, saying the real toll could be much higher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran on Friday reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections in more than a month as it warned of clusters hitting new regions.The Islamic republic has struggled to contain the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease since its first cases emerged in mid-February.Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 2,102 new cases were confirmed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}