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Iran passes 10,000 COVID-19 deaths

Iran's president says citizens must wear masks as part of a “new phase” of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

Iranian men wearing face masks are pictured at a metro station in the capital Tehran on June 10, 2020 amid the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic crisis. - Nearly one in five Iranians may have been infected with the novel coronavirus since the country's outbreak started in February, a health official said yesterday. The figure represents 18.75 percent of the more than 80 million population of Iran, which on June 9 announced another 74 deaths from the coronavirus. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP
Iranian men wearing face masks are pictured at a metro station in the capital, Tehran, on June 10, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. — STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says his country is properly handling its response to the coronavirus outbreak but is looking to make sure that people wear masks in public. 

At a meeting of the National Headquarters for Combating the Coronavirus on June 25, Rouhani said that while some cities are seeing a spike in infections and deaths, “on the whole the rate of the outbreak … is on the decline.” 

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