Iran has temporarily freed around 85,000 prisoners including political detainees in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus, the government said today.
It comes as deaths in the Islamic Republic spike by 135 – a 13% rise.
The coronavirus has killed 135 more people in Iran, which has raised the death toll to 988 amid 16,169 infections. That's according to Iran Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour, who gave the figure at a televised news conference today.
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