Armenia closes Iran border amid coronavirus outbreak
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  • 02:31 24 February 2020

Armenia closes Iran border amid coronavirus outbreak

Armenia is closing its border with Iran for two weeks and suspending air traffic after reports of coronavirus cases there, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a Facebook post on Sunday, ONA reports.

Iran said it had confirmed 43 cases and eight deaths, with most of the infections in the Shi’ite Muslim holy city of Qom.

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