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Iran reports record daily coronavirus cases

  • 09 Nov 2020
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Iran has reported a rise of 10,463 daily coronavirus cases on Monday, bringing total cases in the country to 692,949.

Middle East's worst affected country Iran also reported that, 458 people had died from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 38,749.

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Ministry's spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told state TV that government has imposed restrictions as the country battles a third wave of the virus. All non-essential businesses must close at 6pm, starting on November 10, for one month.

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Iranian government has imposed restrictions as the country battles a third wave of the virus.

According to ISNA news agency mentioning Nader Tavakkoli, a member of Iran's national coronavirus taskforce some hospitals have run out of beds to treat new patients.

"Beds allocated for coronavirus patients are full at hospitals," Tavakkoli said. "We should have a temporary phase of two weeks closure in Tehran to control the wave of the disease ... meanwhile we can get into planning."

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