Turkey on Sunday announced it would "temporarily" close its land border with neighbouring Iran as alarm grows over a spike in new coronavirus infections, SIA reports quoting TRT World.
"We have decided to shut the land border temporarily after an increase in the number of cases in our neighbour Iran," Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told reporters. He said air traffic would be unilaterally halted from 2000 (1700 GMT). All highways and railways will be closed as of 5 pm (14:00GMT) on Sunday, Koca said.
The Turkish Health Ministry in a statement asked people not to believe in social media posts claiming coronavirus presence in the country. "There's no case of COVID-19 in our country," the ministry said.
Iran reported three more novel coronavirus deaths among 15 new cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities in the Islamic republic to eight and infections to 43. That's the highest death toll from the virus outside of China, where the outbreak first emerged a couple of months ago. The outbreak in Iran has centered on the holy city of Qom, where officials say travellers from China brought the new coronavirus.
China reported another 97 deaths in its daily update on Sunday, taking its total to 2,442, plus 648 new infections. Nearly 80,000 people have been infected worldwide, the vast majority in China.
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