Iranian vice president tests positive for COVID-19: report

Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iran's vice president for women and family affairs, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to IRNA.

State media also reported on Thursday that Iranian cleric Hadi Khosroshahi died from coronavirus in Qom. Khosroshahi served as Iran's ambassador to the Vatican. 

It came after the country's deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi said that he was tested positive for the COVID-19 on Tuesday and Mojtaba Zonnour, chairman of Iran Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, announced he was infected with the virus on Thursday. 

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