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Municipality holds crisis management meeting as Qom enters COVID 6th wave

Qom Municipality has held crisis management meeting in order to review the situation of the city with the beginning of the sixth wave of the COVIDand the level of readiness of the related organizations.

The meeting of Qom Municipality Crisis Management was held with the aim of examining the situation of the city with the beginning of the sixth wave of the COVID and the level of readiness of organizations and organizations affiliated with Qom Municipality by the Center for Passive Defense and Municipal Crisis Management.

This meeting was held in the presence of the director general of Crisis Management of Qom Province, the director generals, heads and representatives of organizations of squares, transportation and traffic, taxi drivers, and public relations of the municipality.

Measures taken by every organization to reduce the outbreak of the new corona wave reported and the implementation of the required items discussed at the meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting, Mohsen Orooji, Director General of Qom Crisis Management, and Narges Jafari, Director of the Health Working Group of Qom University of Medical Sciences, presented a report on the current situation in the city, compliance with health protocols, and the need to vaccinate citizens to reduce COVID harmful effects.

Some 44 more Iranians have died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours bringing the total deaths to 132,424, Iran’s Health Ministry said on Sunday.

21,996 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, 1,209 of whom were hospitalized, it said.

The Iranian Health Ministry noted that 6,102,290 patients out of a total of 6,344,179 infected people have recovered or been discharged from hospitals.

Some 1,404 COVID-19 patients are in critical conditions and in intensive care units, it added.