Shahrekord (IP) - Urban transportation and public centers, including parks in Shahrekord, the capital of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, southwest of Iran, are disinfected to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Iran PressIran news: Disinfection of public centers throughout Iran after the spread of coronavirus is on the agenda of provincial officials to prevent the spread of the virus.

Disinfection operation of the metro system and buses in Mashhad and the capital city of Tehran is also done on a regular basis.

President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday that the great nation of Iran has been through difficulties much tougher than what it is facing now, emphasizing the whole nation still stand together to defeat the coronavirus.

Head of Iranian Health Ministry's Public Relations Office said on Saturday that 123 people of those who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the country, have been discharged from the hospital.

The death toll from the COVID-19 disease, caused by the coronavirus outbreak, in Iran has risen to 43 with 593 confirmed cases.

About 84,000 people in at least 56 countries have been infected all over the world, and about 2,900 people have died of COVID-19.

The governor of Washington declared a state of emergency Saturday after a man died there of COVID-19, the first such reported death in the United States. More than 50 people in a nursing facility are sick and being tested for the virus.

In the latest development, South Korea reported 210 new coronavirus cases on Sunday afternoon local time, raising the country's total infections to 3,736, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said.

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