The new count brings the number of those killed by the virus in the country since mid-February to 194, one of the highest tolls outside of China, where the disease originated.Iran Air, the Islamic Republic’s flag carrier, meanwhile announced it would stop all its flights into Europe amid the outbreak, the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported on Sunday. Iran Air said it was in negotiations to resume its European flights, ISNA said. It did not elaborate.
Iran's Health Ministry had said Saturday that 21 more people had died from the virus, bringing the death toll to 145. More than 1,000 new infections were also confirmed overnight, bringing the total to 5,823 cases nationwide. Among the dead was Fatemeh Rahabar, a 55-year-old newly elected lawmaker who passed away in Tehran, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Saturday. She'd been elected to the next parliament that begins work in May.
Earlier this week, Iranian lawmaker Abdolreza Mesri told state television that 23 members in the current parliament had the coronavirus, and urged all lawmakers to avoid the public. Meanwhile in Egypt, a cruise ship on the Nile River with over 150 tourists and local crew was in quarantine on Saturday in the southern city of Luxor, as 45 people on board tested positive for the new coronavirus, authorities said. - Agencies
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