Iran lamented that people were ignoring social distancing rules as it reported more than 3,000 new coronavirus infections in a second cresting wave, according to AFP.

“The fact that people have become completely careless regarding this disease” was of great concern, said Health Minister Saeed Namaki.

“They either have total confidence in us or think the coronavirus has gone. The latter is not true at all,” the ISNA news agency quoted him as saying.