By Agence France-Presse
Iranian officials on Tuesday reported three more deaths from the novel coronavirus, taking the total number of fatalities to 15, state media reported.
An Iranian woman wears a protective mask to prevent contracting a coronavirus, as she walks at Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran February 20, 2020. (WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Nazanin Tabatabaee via REUTERS / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN)
Two of the dead were elderly women in the central province of Markazi and the other was a patient in the northern province of Alborz, state news agency IRNA said.