The virus, officially called SARS-CoV-2, causes fever, cough and mild to severe respiratory illness. But some relatives of patients who died of the disease, named covid-19, as well as nurses in other hospitals, said few people exposed to the virus were being screened or tested, according to posts on social media. One man who spoke to Radio Farda, a U.S.-funded Persian-language broadcast service, said he was forced to bury his 83-year-old mother after she died of covid-19 in Qom.
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