Iraj Harirchi facts for kids
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Iraj Harirchi Tabrizi
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| ایرج حریرچی تبریزی | |
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| Director of National Center for Fight with Coronavirus | |
| Assumed office 24 February 2020 |
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| President | Hassan Rouhani Ebrahim Raisi |
| Deputy Minister of Health | |
| Assumed office 22 October 2014 |
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| President | Hassan Rouhani Ebrahim Raisi |
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| Born | 1966 (age 58–59) Tabriz, Iran |
Iraj Harirchi Tabrizi (Persian: ایرج حریرچی تبریزی) was born in 1966 in Iran. He is a politician, which means he helps make important decisions for his country. He is also a surgeon, a special kind of doctor who performs operations.
Mr. Harirchi teaches at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences at the Tehran Cancer Institute. He also works as a deputy minister in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. This means he helps lead the country's health system and makes sure people get good medical care.
Iraj Harirchi and the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the time when COVID-19 was spreading around the world, Mr. Harirchi played an important role in Iran. COVID-19 is a sickness caused by a new virus.
His Own Experience with COVID-19
On February 25, 2020, Mr. Harirchi announced that he had caught COVID-19. He then stayed by himself to avoid spreading the virus to others. This is called quarantine. Just one day before, another politician had said that many people had died from COVID-19 in a city called Qom. Mr. Harirchi had disagreed with that statement.
During the press conference where he spoke, Mr. Harirchi was seen coughing and sweating. This showed that he was not feeling well. Later, on March 12, another official named Saeed Namaki shared good news: Iraj Harirchi had fully recovered from the virus.
Views on Public Health Measures
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr. Harirchi shared his thoughts on how to stop the virus from spreading. He said that Iran was against using quarantines. He believed that quarantines were an old idea, from a time before the First World War. He compared them to methods used for diseases like the plague or cholera.
Many people, especially those at universities and on social media, did not agree with his statement. They believed that quarantines were still an important way to control the spread of new diseases.
