Updated.
March 20, 2020 03: 43:08
Sobering figures of the death toll due to the coronavirus have actually been divulged by a health spokesman in Iran, where practically 150 people are now dying every day– at a rate of 6 every hour.
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Iranians dying at stunning rate
The coronavirus is killing one person every 10 minutes in Iran, the health ministry spokesperson tweeted on Thursday, as the death toll in the Middle East’s worst-affected country climbed to 1,284
” Based on our details, every 10 minutes one person passes away from the coronavirus and some 50 people become contaminated with the virus every hour in Iran,” tweeted Kianush Jahanpur, the head of public relations and info in the ministry of Health and Medical Education.
Iran’s deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi said the overall variety of infections had reached 18,407 in the Islamic Republic.
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