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Iran’s daily number of new coronavirus transmissions continued creeping back towards its previous peak on Wednesday, with 3,134 confirmed cases detected in the past 24 hours, according to the health ministry.
The Islamic republic recorded 3,186 transmissions on 30 March, at the height of its outbreak. Numbers then dipped to 802 on 2 May, after the country imposed closures of schools, religious sites and parts of the economy, but have crept up since then as measures to contain the spread have been eased. Wednesday’s figure is the second highest number of daily transmissions reported in a day.
The number of coronavirus cases is slowly declining in Russia, the World Health Organization has said, as the Kremlin prepares to stage a vote that would pave the way for the president, Vladimir Putin, to continue in office.
“We are seeing a good, albeit slow, decline” in the number of infections in Russia including the capital Moscow, said Melita Vujnovic, the WHO’s Russia representative, according to AFP.
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