In this Saturday, March 7, 2020, a cleric, right, assists a medic treating a patient infected with the new coronavirus, at a hospital in Qom, 78 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. With the approaching Persian New Year, known as Nowruz, officials kept up pressure on people not to travel and to stay home. Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour, who gave Iran's new casualty figures Sunday, reiterated that people should not even attend funerals. (Moh…

March 9, 2020