TEHRAN, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Mojtaba Zonnour, head of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran's parliament, has caught the novel coronavirus, official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.
"My corona test has been confirmed positive. There is no concern. I am isolated," Zonnour was quoted as saying by IRNA.
"Hopefully, the nation will defeat the virus," he said.
On Wednesday, local media reported that another Iranian lawmaker Mahmoud Sadeghi had also caught the coronavirus.
Earlier, Iranian media reported that President of Qom Medical Sciences University Mohammad Reza Qadir has also been tested positive with the coronavirus.
On Thursday, Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education announced that the coronavirus outbreak in the country has affected 245 people and 26 of them have died.
