{"id":23594,"date":"2020-04-12T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T11:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-jumps-to-4357\/"},"modified":"2020-04-12T16:55:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T11:25:02","slug":"iran-coronavirus-death-toll-jumps-to-4357","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23594","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Coronavirus death toll jumps to 4,357"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Total number of positive cases since outbreak in Iran tops 70,000<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-jumps-to-4-357\/1800968\">Agencies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 125 more deaths from the new coronavirus, Iran\u2019s death toll rose to 4,357, a health official said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kianoush Jahanpour, a Health Ministry spokesman, told a live state TV broadcast that 1,837 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total infections to 70,029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jahanpour said 41,947 people have recovered so far and were discharged from hospitals, while 3,987 patients are in critical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since appearing in Wuhan, China, last December, the novel coronavirus has spread to at least 185 countries and regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data compiled by the U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University shows that worldwide infections have exceeded 1.7 million, with the death toll surpassing 103,000. Nearly 379,000 people have recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total number of positive cases since outbreak in Iran tops 70,000 Agencies With 125 more deaths from the new coronavirus, Iran\u2019s death toll rose to 4,357, a health official said on Saturday. Kianoush Jahanpour, a Health Ministry spokesman, told a live state TV broadcast that 1,837 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}