Desk Report
Publish: 07 Mar 2020, 05:33 pm
Nile river boat MS River Anuket docks in the city of Luxor in southern Egypt. The ship, carrying some 100 mostly foreign tourists is under quarantine after 12 people tested positive for the new coronavirus. Photo: Collected from AP
Iran's Health Ministry today raised the death toll from coronavirus to 145 while more than 1,000 infections were confirmed overnight totaling some 5,823 cases nationwide.
Some 21 new deaths were reported Saturday by the ministry's spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour.
there were 16,000 cases are hospitalized across the country, with some still being tested or monitored to see if they had contracted the virus, Jahanpour said.
The capital of Tehran alone has the most infections, with more than 1,500 cases, followed by the Shiite holy city of Qom with 668 and the northern Mazandaran province with 606 cases.
The virus, which originated in China, has infected more than 100,000 people globally.
Source: AP
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