Iranian Vice President Contracts Coronavirus: State Media
Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iran’s vice president for women and family affairs, contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus, according to state-run media. Ebtekar, who was also an English-language spokesperson for Iran during the 1979 hostage situation, is suffering from mild symptoms and wasn’t hospitalized, said state media, CBS News reported. She one of several Iranian officials to have contracted the virus. The death toll from COVID-19 in Iran has risen to 26 while 245 people have contracted the virus, health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said in a statement carried by state-controlled IRNA. The country is the hardest-hit in the Middle East, and many of its neighbors have closed their borders to travel and suspended flights. Iran has shut down schools, universities, and canceled public gatherings to combat the disease’s spread. The majority of the…
MADRID鈥擜 Spanish military plane crashed into the sea off the country’s southeastern coast during a training exercise on Thursday, killing its pilot, the air force said.
“We regret to inform you that our colleague, commander Eduardo Garvalena Crespo, has died,” the Spanish air force tweeted as it prepared to end a search operation.
The Spanish-made C-101 jet, used for air stunts, hit the water near La Manga in the Murcia region in early afternoon.
A pilot died in August in a similar accident with the same jet type and at the same area.
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‘Seeing Patients Die One by One’: Doctor in Coronavirus-Stricken City in China Recounts Harrowing Experience
“There are so many deaths. The mortality rate of patients in critical condition is about 80 percent, and the mortality rate of patients in severe condition is 20 percent,” said doctor Chen, who is treating the ill in one of the cities hard-hit by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in China. In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times on Feb. 27, Chen discussed what he saw and experienced in the city of Ezhou, about 50 miles east of Wuhan, where the outbreak first emerged. Both cities are within Hubei province. Chen is a young doctor dispatched from another province to Ezhou to help treat the large numbers of COVID-19 patients there. As a doctor with a lot of experience treating patients with respiratory diseases in intensive care units (ICU)…
