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		</div><p>The husband of a British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran says his wife is showing “all the symptoms” of coronavirus but is yet to be tested.</p>
<p>Richard Ratcliffe said his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was desperately trying to get tested, but claimed the prison where she is being held is “obviously under orders” not to allow it.</p>
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<p>Although there are currently no confirmed cases at the Evin prison in Tehran, Covid-19 has spread rapidly across Iran with at least 54 dead and almost 1,000 patients identified.</p>
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<p>Speaking on Good Morning Britain (GMB) today, Mr Ratcliffe said other inmates at the facility were “keeping away” from his wife as she was showing symptoms.</p>
<p>He said: “It (coronavirus) has swept through the prison.</p>
<p>“There are prisoners showing all the symptoms of coronavirus, a cough, temperature, body pain all over, fatigue.</p>
<p>“Nazanin, at the middle of the week, was showing all these symptoms.”</p>
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<p>Mr Ratcliffe claimed the prison where she is being held had run out of cleaning materials, including disinfectants, as well as medicines.</p>
<p>He said his wife was “desperate” to get tested, but added: “The prison is obviously under orders not to test anyone.”</p>
<p>The UK&#8217;s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has called on the Iranian government to “immediately allow” health professionals into the prison to assess British-Iranian dual nationals.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Prime Minister <a href="https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@10DowningStreet</a> &#8211; you visited my constituency today and met with staff treating Coronavirus patients. Please now help another H&;K resident who is suffering tonight in Iran &#8211; Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeNazanin?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FreeNazanin</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Tulip Siddiq (@TulipSiddiq) <a href="https://twitter.com/TulipSiddiq/status/1234225013617840130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Britain&#8217;s Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth, who also appeared on GMB, praised Mr Ratcliffe for showing “extraordinary fortitude” in the situation.</p>
<p>He said: “We will continue to press the government and the FCO to do all we can for his wife.”</p>
<p>Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport while travelling to show her young daughter, Gabriella, to her parents in April 2016.</p>
<p>She was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations, which she denies, of plotting to overthrow the Tehran government.</p>
<p>She was later afforded diplomatic protection by the UK Government, which argues that she is innocent and that her treatment by Iran failed to meet obligations under international law.</p>
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