WEATHER ALERT
Iran parliament speaker, Israeli health minister have virus
Read full article: Iran parliament speaker, Israeli health minister have virusIn this Monday, March 2, 2020 photo, Israel's Health Minister Yaakov Litzman delivers a statement as he visits a makeshift tent for quarantined coronavirus voters in Tel Aviv, Israel. As Israel's case count rose to over 6,800, including 34 deaths, the country was rattled by the diagnosis of its health minister, who has had frequent contact with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Middle East has confirmed over 82,000 cases of the virus and over 3,600 deaths, most of them in Iran. Iran’s Health Ministry said Thursday that the new coronavirus killed another 124 people, pushing the country's death toll to 3,160. Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and his wife, who also caught the virus, are members of Israel's insular ultra-Orthodox community, which has been particularly hard-hit.