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Pakistan closes border with Iran over coronavirus

AFP, Islamabad
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Pakistan on Sunday announced it was closing its border with neighboring Iran, after Tehran announced eight deaths from the novel coronavirus.

“We have closed our border with Iran because of the reports of coronavirus there,” said Ayesha Zehri, a senior government official in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan’s province, which borders Iran.

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