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Iran reported over 500 daily Covid deaths for the first time on Sunday, its health ministry announced, as new infections also hit a record high. Iran registered 39,619 new infections in the 24 hours to Sunday, taking the total since the pandemic started to 4,158,729, the ministry said During that same period it recorded 542 […]

Iranians, some wearing protective gear amid the COVID-19 pandemic, shop at the Tajrish Bazaar market in the capital Tehran on July 14, 2020.

During that same period it recorded 542 deaths, taking the total number of fatalities to 94,015, it added.Iranian health officials have acknowledged that the Islamic republic’s Covid figures underestimate the real toll.Covid infections have been surging since late June, in what officials have warned is a “fifth wave” caused by the highly infectious Delta variant.The previous recorded high for fatalities was 496, registered on April 26, at the height of the Islamic republic’s previous wave.

Choked by US sanctions that have made it difficult to transfer money abroad, Iran says it is struggling to import vaccines for its 83 million population. Chairing a Covid taskforce meeting, he also vowed to “support domestic vaccine production” while “not hesitating” to import jabs from abroad.

 

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