The new variant of the virus entered Iran from its eastern and southeastern borders and has triggered a jump in the cases, the Iranian national headquarters fighting Covid-19 has announced The Delta variant of Covid-19 has spread to much of Iran, including the capital Tehran. The new variant of the virus entered Iran from its eastern and southeastern borders and has triggered a jump in the cases, the Iranian national headquarters fighting Covid-19 has announced. “Given the highly infectious nature of this (new variant of) virus, it can further raise cases and hospitalisations,” Alireza Raisi, spokesman of the headquarters, was quoted as saying on Sunday by the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA), Xinhua reported. In Iran, at least 92 cities, including Tehran, have been placed on red alert and 183 others on orange, according to the Iranian health authorities. The restrictions in cities on red alert need to be reinstated, with “at most 30 percent of government employees allowed in the w...