Iran reports more than 200 new coronavirus fatalities that took the overall toll in the Middle East’s deadliest outbreak beyond 13,000.
“Unfortunately, in the past 24 hours, we have lost 203 of our compatriots due to the COVID-19 disease,” says health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari.
“Based on this figure, the total number of victims has reached 13,032,” she tells a televised news conference.
Lari says another 2,349 people had tested positive for the virus, raising the overall figure in the country’s outbreak to 259,652.
Iran has been struggling to contain the virus since announcing its first cases in February — two deaths in the Shiite holy city of Qom.
The Islamic Republic has refrained from enforcing full lockdowns to stop the pandemic’s spread.
— AFP
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