Iranian wedding party fuelled new COVID-19 surge, President Rouhani says

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday, that a wedding party contributed to a new surge in coronavirus infections in Iran, insisting that the country had no option but to keep its economy open despite warnings of a second wave of the epidemic.

“At one location, we witnessed a peak in this epidemic, the source of which was a wedding that caused problems for the people, health workers and losses to the economy and the country’s health system,” Rouhani said on state TV. He did not say when or where the wedding took place.