DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Iranian Health Ministry spokesman on Saturday said the new coronavirus has killed 43 people amid 593 confirmed cases in the Islamic Republic.Iran has the world’s highest death toll outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak. The new figures from Iran this pushes the total cases in the Middle East to over 720.
Earlier Saturday, Bahrain threatened legal prosecution against travelers who came from Iran and hadn’t been tested for the new coronavirus, and also barred public gatherings for two weeks. All of Bahrain’s cases link back to Iran, whose death toll of 34 killed is the worst outside of China, the epicenter of the virus., and experts fear that number may be far greater, something Iranian officials themselves have begun to hint.
The ministry “affirmed that the required legal proceedings would be taken against anyone who returned from Iran in February and didn’t call to make appointments for the tests,” the Interior Ministry said. “It highlighted that preventing the outbreak of the infection is the responsibility of individuals and society as a whole.”
dancindoti That is a much higher rate than 2-3% tell our idiot president
All your international reporting is rubbish. You lied during the downing of the airliner; you are lying now. Infection rate is in the thousands.... admit it. Iran Iran Persia
I never trust AP reports.
Sort this out please.
Too many.
What's ages if 70 to 80+ not shocking number
bai_mina The actual number more than 212 people died for now , Islamic republic always lying about everything
mehdirhasan Iran is not hiding cases like some other countries, How is it possible that there are only 3 corona cases among 1.4 billion people in India with that poor health system and neighboring china?!
4X the mortality rate elsewhere? Seems odd...
7%
They must rely on remedy that they know.
Confirmed case should at least be 4x greater! WHO should check Iran already out of control. Big risk!
Also Iran said it was engine failure, for Ukrainian Airline. Also Iran said their Missiles did not strike oil facility in Saudi Arabia. But Left Wing News, believe as gospel Ps. Held American Hostages Ps. Called America 'great satan' Ps. Murder LGBT
It's possible Iran is not hiding their numbers like most other countries.
What is this pic of anyway a public exercise machine?
GOP
The anger of god upon us.
mehdirhasan That's all very well and good but surely the story here is WTF is that guy doing?
mehdirhasan Because they can’t get medicines due to the inhuman US sanctions. Cruelty rules these days.
mehdirhasan
The number of infected is significantly higher or people are being executed by their government
7% death rate. Jesus.
What about the 50 deaths reported earlier by Iran officials?
That's 7.2% mortality , the highest in the world
That's why you should pick Science over Religion
WOW! That's 7% Coronavirus mortality! Off the charts in Iran!
Yes... The virus left bullet holes in the heads of 52 of them..
Eat pork it cures it all. Specially for that nation.
That is far less than the Govt killed in the latest protests. 1500 COVID2019
7% mortality rate in Iran....yeah, this is a hoax for sure...smh....
If Irán says there are 43 dead the real number must be closer to 500.
Are we supposed to believe this?
It's all just Leftist media fear mongering anyway!
Almost %8 percent mortality rate. that's horrible
The cure is in oranges! They gotta peel and eat!
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