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Iran has announced more than 39,000 new Covid cases today, the highest in a single day in the country worst hit by the pandemic.
The health authorities in Iran said another 378 people died of coronavirus and 39,019 tested positive in the past 24 hours, according to AFP.
According to official figures widely believed to underestimate the real toll, the virus has killed 91,785 people out of 3,979,727 cases of infection.
Choked by US sanctions that have made it difficult to transfer money abroad, Iran says it is struggling to import vaccines for its 83 million population.
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