A member of emergency medical staff sits in an ambulance while transferring a patient with coronavirus disease to Masih Daneshvari Hospital, in Tehran, Iran on March 30, 2020. (Reuters)
Iran’s death toll from the COVID-19 respiratory disease reached 5,297 on Tuesday, as it claimed 88 lives in the past 24 hours, a health ministry official said.
The total number of infections reached 84,802, he said.
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