People wear protective face masks, amid the coronavirus outbreak, as they sit in a metro in Tehran, Iran, March 17, 2020. Photo: WANA (West Asia News Agency) / Ali Khara via Reuters.

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Iran reached 5,209 on Monday with 91 deaths in the past twenty-four hours, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said in a statement on state TV on Monday.

The total number of diagnosed cases of the coronavirus in Iran, the Middle Eastern country hardest hit by the outbreak, had reached 83،505, he said.