Tehran: The death toll in Iran from the new coronavirus climbed for another consecutive day, killing 62 more people in the past 24 hours as the government on Wednesday raised the nationwide death toll to 354.
Iran's health ministry said that the deaths are among some 9,000 confirmed cases in the country, where the virus has spread to all of the provinces.
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The Islamic republic has one of the world's worst death tolls outside of China, the epicentre of the outbreak. Outside of Iran, only Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon have recorded deaths from the virus in the Middle East.
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In the Gulf Arab island nation of Bahrain, authorities said that their number of confirmed cases on Wednesday spiked by nearly 70% to 189 confirmed cases. The 77 new cases were all on a returning flight of Bahraini evacuees from Iran.
With inputs from AP
