CAIRO, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Iran on Monday registered 486 daily deaths over COVID-19 and 13,053 new cases over the past 24 hours, the highest daily figures since the outbreak of the disease in the country. Meanwhile, Morocco's tally of infections approached 300,000.
The total number of confirmed cases in Iran has reached 775,121, where the pandemic has by now claimed 41,979 lives, said Sima Sadat Lari, spokeswoman for the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education.
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