Women wearing protective masks cross a street in the Iranian capital Tehran on March 2, 2020, following the COVID-19 illness outbreak, which Iran says has claimed 66 lives out of 1,501 cases of infection in the Islamic republic since February. – The novel coronavirus has sparked intense debate in Iran between ultra-conservative Shiite clerics and the government on how to most effectively tackle the deadliest outbreak of the disease outside China. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
