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As well as petrol stations providing subsidised fuel, Iran has some stations that provide fuel for motorists, but at unsubsidised rates twice as expensive at around five euro cents (5-6 US cents) per litre, the news agency reported. Since 2010, when Iran's nuclear programme was hit by the Stuxnet computer virus, Iran and its Israel and the US have regularly accused each other of cyber attacks.
In May last year, the Washington Post reported that Israel carried out a cyber attack on the Iranian port of Shahid Rajaei in the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic route for global energy shipments.
2.3 Nearly everyone in Iran infected by coronavirus at some point concludes study
Nearly everyone in Iran has been infected by the coronavirus at some point during the COVID-19 pandemic, and some have caught the virus more than once, but the country still hasn’t achieved herd immunity, the New Scientist has reported.
Instead of herd immunity, said the trade publication, Iran was seeing a punishing new wave of deaths driven by the delta variant of the coronavirus. The country of 84mn has experienced around a month of relatively lower COVID-19 numbers, but the virus now appears back on the rise for a sixth wave. By October 20, daily infections were again running over the 10,000-threshold. The official coronavirus death toll, meanwhile, stands at 124,000, though officials have conceded the real number could be twice as high. During the peak of the fifth wave, daily deaths were well over 500.
Iran’s health minister, Bahram Eynollahi, said last week that Iran needs to reach a coronavirus vaccination rate of 80%. But his ministry’s figures showed only 35% of Iranians fully vaccinated with two vaccine jabs, with 75% of individuals recorded as “one shot”. The figures released appeared to be percentages of adults over a certain age, but the data was not clear. Vaccinations would stop rife hospitalisations but COVID-19 would not fully go away, the minister added.
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