TEHERAN: Four holy sites in Iran are blocked off to visitors due to the coronavirus outbreak which has now claimed nearly 1,000 lives in the country.
State media on Tuesday (March 17) reported that three mausoleums in the cities of Mashad, Qom, and Tehran were shut, as well as the large Jamkaran mosque in Qom, which is south of Teheran.
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