Iran Press/ Asia: Deaths from COVID-19 rose by a record 1,761 to reach a total of 180,530, health ministry data showed.
Earlier, the head of the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences in New Delhi has said that the B.1.617 COVID-19 variant, which mutated in the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic in India was more contagious.
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