CAIRO, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 epidemic has claimed 50,016 lives in Iran as of Saturday, and the total confirmed cases hit 1,028,986 in the country, according to the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education. Meanwhile, Turkey reported 31,896 new COVID-19 cases.
In the past 24 hours, 12,151 new COVID-19 infections and 321 new deaths were reported, said the ministry's spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said at a daily briefing.
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