The confirmed death toll from the coronavirus passed 50,000 in the Middle East on Thursday, according to a count from the Associated Press based on official numbers provided by health authorities.
Those numbers still may be an undercount, though, as testing in war-torn nations like Libya and Yemen remains extremely limited.
The top UN official for Libya on Wednesday warned the coronavirus pandemic in the war-ravaged country appears to be "spiralling out of control." Yemen's Houthi rebels, who control the capital, Sanaa, and much of the north, have refused to release virus statistics.
The hardest-hit nation remains Iran, which saw the region's first major outbreak. Over 21,900 people have died there from the virus, with over 380,000 confirmed cases and 328,000 recoveries.