With coronavirus infections rising, Iran mobilizes 300,000 teams and deploys drones and water cannon to slow the spread of the disease
TEHRAN—Iran deployed drones to disinfect streets and mobilized tens of thousands of teams to conduct door-to-door coronavirus checks across the country, an indication of the scale of the epidemic here, where it has killed more people than anywhere else outside of China, including a government official.
The death toll ticked higher, with Iran’s health ministry raising the number of fatalities from the coronavirus to 66 Monday, up from 54 a day earlier. The number of confirmed cases rose 53% to 1,501.
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