Masoumeh Ebtekar, an Iranian vice president who is better known as the infamous “Screaming Mary” during the 1979 US hostage crisis, has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, according to reports.

Ebtekar, the vice president for women and family affairs, was sitting near President Hassan Rouhani during a cabinet meeting Wednesday, according to the UK’s Standard, which cited a BBC correspondent.

Reports about her illness come two days after Iraj Harirchi, the official who was tasked with tackling the outbreak in Iran, also tested positive. He had been seen sweating profusely at a news conference about the virus.

Ebtekar gained infamy as “Screaming Mary” when she served as the English-speaking mouthpiece of the hostage-takers who seized the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, sparking the 444-day diplomatic crisis.

During her propagandizing, she would walk through the embassy and urge the 52 hostages to describe their ordeal to a camera crew in positive terms, according to a report in The Atlantic.

“You have been treated well, haven’t you,” she asked repeatedly.

One of the hostages, US Army Sgt. Regis Regan became so fed up with her that he unleashed a diatribe, which led to a beating, the news outlet reported.

Another hostage, Michael Metrinko, hated her so much for her televised rants that he said: “If she were on fire on the street, I wouldn’t piss on her to put it out.”

Coronavirus cases in Iran jumped by 106 — to 254 — over the last 24 hours, the country’s health ministry announced Thursday, according to the UK’s Independent.

At least 26 people have died of the illness in Iran, whose death toll from the outbreak is higher than any country except China, where the epidemic emerged.

As a result of the outbreak, officials canceled Friday prayers in Tehran, the news outlet reported.