Insurance Firms Paid $48m in Pandemic-Related Bills

Insurance companies in Iran paid 13.63 trillion rials ($48.3 million) in Covid-related medical bills since the outbreak of the deadly virus in February 2020.
Gholamreza Soleimani, head of the Central Insurance company of Iran (the regulatory body of the industry), in a talk Sunday with state TV reflected on the performance of insurance companies vis-à-vis coronavirus bills.
"Hospitalization costs accounted for nearly one-third of pandemic-related payouts followed by medicine 18% and Covid tests 15% share of the total. The purpose of 19% of payments is not clear yet," he said.