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Patrick Wintour, the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, has now written an update on the situation in Iran where, as I reported earlier, figures suggest a second wave of coronavirus infection is spreading. He writes:
Fresh signs that Iran has failed to bring the Coronavirus outbreak under control emerged today when the Iranian health ministry said 3,000 new infections had been recorded in the previous 24 hours, the highest figure for two months.
Iran’s new infections total has been rising for nearly two weeks, but now the pace is accelerating leading the Iranian authorities to acknowledge a second wave is underway.
Afghanistan has recorded 545 new coronavirus cases and 8 deaths on Monday as Kabul recorded lowest number of new infections in more than a month, Akhtar Mohammad Makoii reports from the city of Herat.
The latest update takes total number of transmissions in Afghanistan to 15,750, and the death toll to 265. There have been 1,428 recoveries.
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