Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, Dec. 5


By Liu Lu
  • World
  • Sunday, 06 Dec 2020

TEHRAN -- The COVID-19 epidemic has claimed 50,016 lives in Iran as of Saturday, with the total cases to 1,028,986 in the country, according to the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

The ministry's spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari reported at daily briefing that 12,151 new COVID-19 infections had been confirmed in the past 24 hours with 321 new fatalities. Of the newly infected, 1,562 had to be hospitalized. (Iran-COVID19)

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