As many as 12 people have died from the outbreak in Iran, which has registered the highest number of fatalities outside China, the epicentre of the pandemic.
The ILNA news agency, which is close to reformists, said the lawmaker spoke of"50 deaths" in Qom alone. It said the cases were of a 53-year-old Kuwaiti man, a 61-year-old Saudi citizen and a 21-year-old stateless Arab. Bahrain's health ministry also reported the country's first COVID-19 case on Monday after a"citizen arriving from Iran was suspected of having contracted the virus based on emerging symptoms".
Desperate and jobless Afghans have crossed the porous border with Iran for years in search of work to support their struggling families back home. The novel coronavirus has spread to more than 25 countries, with more than 2,500 dead in China, and is causing mounting alarm due to new pockets of outbreaks in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Around a third of Kuwait's 1.4 million citizens are Shia Muslims, who travel regularly to Iran to visit religious shrines. Kuwait also hosts roughly 50,000 Iranian workers.Iraq said it closed the only border crossing with Kuwait at Safwan, south of Basra, late Sunday.
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