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Coronavirus update: Iranian Vatican ambassador dies of coronavirus, the vice president also infected

The coronavirus outbreak has struck two high-profile politicians in Iran, with Hadi Khosroshahi, Iran's former ambassador to the Vatican, dying due to the infection, and the country's most prominent female politician and vice president of women and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, has also been diagnosed with coronavirus. The death toll has crossed 2,800 with more than 82,000 people infected worldwide.

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