Coronavirus outbreak: Iran health minister appears ill at news conference before COVID 19 diagnosis

Iran s deputy health minister and head of the country s countercoronavirus task force Iraj Harirchi appeared to be ill at a news conference about COVID19 cases in Tehran on Monday, a day before he was reported to have been tested positive for the virus. Harirchi continuously wiped his forehead throughout the news conference, and at one point an aide brought more tissues for him to use. Harirchi stood next Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabei at the news conference, in which Harirchi said 12 people had