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俄罗斯卫星通讯社德黑兰2月19日电 伊朗ISNA通讯社援引伊朗卫生部长顾问贾汉普尔(Kianush Jahanpour)报道,伊朗两名新冠患者死亡。
报道中说:“很遗憾,两名高龄患者死亡”。
伊朗卫生部指出,因感染新冠病毒死亡的这两个人都是伊朗公民。
“Two Iranians, who tested positive earlier today for new coronavirus, died of respiratory illness,” the official told Mehr.
Iran’s health ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur confirmed their death on Twitter.
Iran confirmed earlier on Wednesday its first two cases of the virus, government spokesman Ali Rabiei said, shortly after reports that preliminary tests on the two had come back positive.
The health ministry said earlier that the patients had been put in isolation.
Rabiei did not give the nationality of the two people infected, but some reports suggested that they were Iranian nationals.
The death toll from the new coronavirus in mainland China passed 2,000 on Wednesday although the number of new cases fell for a second straight day, as authorities tightened already severe containment measures in the worst-hit city of Wuhan.