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SULAIMANI — An ethnic Kurdish woman died on Sunday (March 1) in the Iranian city of Saqqez after contracting coronavirus.

According to Mehr News Agency, which quoted Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences Public Relations Anwar Bahrami, there were five total suspected cases of the disease at the Imam Saqqez hospital in the city, which is located in Kurdistan Province.

Of the remaining four patients, two have tested positive for the virus and the other two remain under observation.

Iran has the highest death rates of the coronavirus outside of China, with 593 confirmed cases and 43 deaths.

(NRT Digital Media)