Iran announces 135 more coronavirus deaths, official toll now 988
Tuesday 17/March/2020 - 03:08 PM
Iran announced on Tuesday another 135 deaths from
the novel coronavirus, bringing the overall toll to 988 in one of the world’s worst-hit
countries.
“Reports by more than 56 laboratories indicated that
we have had 1,178 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in the past 24
hours,” health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said in a televised news
conference.
“This brings the total number of confirmed cases to
16,169 as of today noon,” he added.
