Iran announced 144 new deaths from COVID-19 and 2926 new cases of infection. Meanwhile Turkey's number of COVID-19 infections kept rising fastly as the second hardest-hit country in the Middle East. The latest figures on Friday brought Iran's death toll to 2378 as the total number of COVID-19 cases surged to 32332 of whom 11133 have recovered Xinhua news agency reported. On Friday Iran started the implementation of a social distancing plan for one week. It could be extended if the authorities deem it necessary. The plan includes further restrictions of the inter-city travels the closure of public places like