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Health

Iran’s coronavirus death toll surpasses 23,000

FILE PHOTO: An Iranian woman wearing a protective face mask walks in a park, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tehran, Iran June 12, 2020. Ali Khara/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Iran’s coronavirus death toll rose by 116 to 23,029, a health ministry spokeswoman told state TV on Saturday.

The total number of identified cases spiked by 2,139 in the last 24 hours to 399,940 in one of the Middle East's worst-hit countries, Sima Sadat Lari was quoted as saying.

(Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

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