Turkey, Pakistan Shut Iran Border

Turkey on Sunday announced it would “temporarily” close its land border with neighbouring Iran as alarm grows over a spike in new coronavirus infections. “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. 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.

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