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Iran reported 71 more deaths from Covid-19 on Thursday, bringing the country’s total death toll from the coronavirus outbreak to 6,854.
In his daily televised statement, Kianoush Jahanpour, the health ministry spokesman, said that 114,533 people had tested positive for the Sars-CoV-2 virus in Iran, of whom 90,539 have since recovered.
The US embassy has said that hospitals in Tanzania are being overwhelmed by an “exponential growth” of Covid-19 cases, writes Emmanuel Akinwotu, the Guardian’s West Africa correspondent.
In a strikingly critical statement released yesterday night, the embassy warned that risk of contracting Covid-19 was “extremely high” in the capital Dar es Salaam and beyond. The statement said:
Despite limited official reports, all evidence points to exponential growth of the epidemic in Dar and other locations in Tanzania …
Many hospitals in Dar es Salaam have been overwhelmed in recent weeks. Limited hospital capacity throughout Tanzania could result in life-threatening delays for medical care, including for those with Covid-19.
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