Iran says it will allow “low-risk” economic activities to resume from April 11 as its daily coronavirus infection rates slows for a fifth straight day.
“Restarting these activities does not mean we have abandoned the principle of staying at home,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says at a meeting of Iran’s anti-coronavirus task force.
The president, whose country has been battered by US economic sanctions, doesn’t specify what qualifies as “low risk” activities but says bans will remain on schools and large gatherings.
A “gradual” return of “low-risk” economic activity will be permitted from next Saturday in the provinces and from April 18 in Tehran, Rouhani says.