Iran's president warns of a potential fifth wave as the Delta variant spreads.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Among imported vaccines, Iran had received more than 2.1 million AstraZeneca vaccines by May through Covax, the global vaccine-sharing program.
52% : Over the past two weeks, average daily reports of new cases in Iran have risen by 21 percent, according to a New York Times database.
44% : Iran has administered about 5.7 million coronavirus vaccines, accounting for about 5 percent of the population, according to a New York Times tracker.
42% : Iran borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, which have had recent outbreaks.
39% : At the same time the president said that being fully vaccinated was not an excuse for not skirting Covid mitigation measures, that Iranians should postpone travel, and that "foreign nationals who are infected with this virus" should not enter Iran.
38% : President Hassan Rouhani of Iran on Saturday warned that the country could see a fifth wave of coronavirus infections as the highly contagious Delta variant spreads.
29% : Early in the pandemic, Iran scrambled to control one of the worst outbreaks in the world after officials played down the severity of the virus.

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