CAIRO, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Health Ministry reported 11,203 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, raising the total nationwide infections to 749,525. Meanwhile in Lebanon, restaurants, bars, cafes, gyms and malls closed their doors as the country entered its first day of a two-week lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19.
The pandemic has so far claimed 41,034 lives in Iran, up by 452 in the past 24 hours, said Sima Sadat Lari, spokeswoman for the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education, during her daily briefing.
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