Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Wednesday called for "decisive" measures to be taken in order to deal with the recent surges in the cases and deaths of COVID-19 in the country, the Xinhua news agency reported.
"The loss of more than 500 lives in one day and the grief of their families, as well as the infection of tens of thousands of people with their diseases and their medical problems, are really very painful ... so we have duties to deal with it," said Khamenei.
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