Three more die of coronavirus in Iran: state media

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Three more die of coronavirus in Iran: state media

Published February 25, 2020, 12:00 AM

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.

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