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Iran health ministry says virus deaths cross 60,000 mark

Iranian women wear protective masks to prevent contracting a coronavirus, as they walk at Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran, February 20, 2020. (Reuters)

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Updated 28 February 2021

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February 28, 2021 13:54

Iran health ministry says virus deaths cross 60,000 mark

Updated 28 February 2021

AFP

February 28, 2021 13:54

TEHRAN: Iran's health ministry said the country's coronavirus fatalities broke the 60,000 mark on Sunday, as the Islamic republic battles the Middle East's worst outbreak of the illness.
"Sadly in the past 24 hours, 93 people lost their lives to Covid-19, and total deaths from this disease reached 60,073," health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said in a televised address.
Iran has registered a total of 1,631,169 infections, according to the ministry.