Iran has temporarily released 54,000 prisoners as cases of coronavirus surge in the Islamic country.
The inmates were released to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus which has since claimed over 77 lives and infected more than 2,000 people in the country.
According to reports, Iran’s Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said the government would oversee the release of the prisoners but did not quite elaborate where they would be kept or how the government would trace them.
“The health of the prisoners is very important for us regardless of their status as security prisoners or regular prisoners,” Esmaili said.
A lawyer of an American held at an Iranian jail said his client was at great risk of getting the virus since another inmate in a neighbouring cell tested positive for the deadly disease.
This came a day after 23 MPs from the Islamic State tested positive for the deadly disease.
Confirming the legislatures’ cases on Tuesday, March 3, Iran’a deputy speaker Abdul Reza Misri said the lawmakers were quarantined and were receiving medication.
Two senior officials in Iran have already succumbed to the virus and more others are reported to have been infected.
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As seen below, the latest statistics on the dreaded virus indicates there are over 92,000 confirmed cases of infections with over 3,110 people having succumbed globally.
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