{"id":22988,"date":"2021-05-09T11:18:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T06:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=22988"},"modified":"2021-05-09T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T06:48:32","slug":"over-12000-pcr-tests-for-passengers-at-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/22988\/over-12000-pcr-tests-for-passengers-at-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Over \u06f1\u06f2,\u06f0\u06f0\u06f0 PCR tests for passengers at borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Some 12,504 passengers have so far undergone PCR tests based on a plan launched on March 10 to rapidly identify suspected cases of coronavirus and prevent the spread of new UK strain.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 258,937 passengers were screened for COVID-19 by IRCS forces, 37,692 of whom underwent rapid tests, Mehdi Valipour, head of the Relief and Rescue Organization of the Red Crescent Society, said.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to lament that some 57 individuals, who tested positive, have so far been temporarily quarantined, IRNA reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>With the cooperation of ministries of health and transport, a plan was implemented to rapidly identify and test incoming passengers and keeping them in quarantine facilities, if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty border checkpoints have been selected, including 16 land borders, 10 air borders, and 2 sea borders, all incoming passengers will be tested and referred to the quarantine facilities in case of necessity.<\/p>\n<p>Some 471 members of the IRCS cooperate for carrying out the plan; while around 8,000 individuals enter the country via borders daily.<\/p>\n<p>On April 28, shared borders with Pakistan were closed, and a day later, the eastern border terminals of the country stopped operation, to contain the new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New cases and mortalities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing on Saturday, Health Ministry\u2019s spokesperson, Sima-Sadat Lari, confirmed 13,576 new cases of COVID-19 infection, raising the total number of infections to 2,640,670. She added that 2,092,381 patients have so far recovered, but 5,545 remain in critical conditions of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>During the past 24 hours, 283 patients have lost their lives, bringing the total number of deaths to 74,524, she added.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 16,929,609 COVID-19 diagnostic tests have been performed in the country.<\/p>\n<p>FB\/MG<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Some 12,504 passengers have so far undergone PCR tests based on a plan launched on March 10 to rapidly identify suspected cases of coronavirus and prevent the spread of new UK strain. Meanwhile, 258,937 passengers were screened for COVID-19 by IRCS forces, 37,692 of whom underwent rapid tests, Mehdi Valipour, head of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}