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| Iran’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar. PHOTO | REUTERS |
Coronavirus spread to Iran, Pakistan and other neighbouring countries. The latest coronavirus infection to a top government official in Iran’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar, the state media reports.
Ms Ebtekar joins a growing number of at least 254 people who have tested positive for the infection in the country; 26 of whom have been killed.
She is most famously known as the English-language spokeswoman from the Arabic nations.
“Mary” for the 1979 hostage-takers who seized the U.S embassy in Tehran, leading to a diplomatic crisis that lasted 44 days.
She also, in 1997, became the first female member of the Iranian cabinet when she was nominated to head the Department for Environment.
News of Ebtekar’s infection comes barely a day after Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Iraj Hairichi confirmed that he had also contracted the virus.
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