Covid-19 outbreak in Iran: 153 more killed in 24 hrs.
Iran’s Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari says some 153 more Iranians have lost their lives due to coronavirus disease over the past 24 hours.
With the newly added number, the country's total COVID-19 death toll mounted to 20,125.
Some 2,444 new cases of infection with COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, some 1,132 of whom have been hospitalized, Lari said.
She said that a total of 350,279 Iranians have been confirmed infected with COVID-19, some 302,528 of whom have been recovered or discharged from the hospitals.
Some 3,862 other COVID-19 patients are in critical conditions and being treated in intensive care units, the spokeswoman added.