Armenia is closing its border with Iran for two weeks and suspending air traffic after reports of coronavirus cases there, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a Facebook post on Sunday.
Iran said it had confirmed 43 cases and eight deaths, with most of the infections in the Shia Muslim holy city of Qom.
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