TEHRAN, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Iranian health authorities announced on Monday the expansion of traffic restrictions implemented in cities on red and orange alert to cities on yellow alert, in order to avoid a new wave of COVID-19.
"To preserve the great achievements in the control of COVID-19, the traffic restrictions that were effective in controlling the disease have been extended from orange alert areas to yellow ones," the Iranian Deputy Minister of Health and Medical Education Alireza Raisi said, as quoted by official news agency IRNA.
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