A sixth death from the Corona-virus has been reported in Iran as authorities in more than a dozen affected provinces ordered the closure of schools, universities and cultural centres in a bid to contain the outbreak.
Mr Ali Aghazadeh, Governor of the Markazi province, said that tests of a patient who recently died in the central city of Arak were positive for the virus.
The person was also suffering from a heart problem.
So far, twenty-eight cases have been confirmed in Iran, but it was not immediately clear if the sixth fatality was among those cases.
All of those who lost their lives are believed to be Iranian citizens, and the deaths in Iran account for the most in any country outside the Peoples Republic of China.
Since the new corona-virus emerged in December last year, it has killed two thousand three hundred and forty-five people in the Peoples Republic of China, the epicentre of the epidemic, and more than a dozen people elsewhere in the world.
Officially known as COVID-19, the infection first surfaced in Iran last Wednesday, when authorities said it claimed the lives of two elderly people in Qom, a Shia holy city south of the capital Tehran.
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