(Bloomberg) -- Daily coronavirus infections hit a record high in Iran, with 3,712 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, the country’s Health Ministry said.
Officials have been struggling to contain the Middle East’s worst outbreak of the disease as they also try to parry the pathogen’s impact on an economy already hobbled by a tough U.S. sanctions regime.
Deaths from the coronavirus rose by 178 overnight, bringing total fatalities to 24,656, Sima Sadat Lari, spokeswoman for the Health Ministry said in a statement on state TV, adding that total cases have now reached 429,193.
