COVID-19 kills more across Iran
According to Iran's Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari, some 191 more Iranians have died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours bringing the total deaths to 53,816.
Sima Sadat Lari said that with the 191 new victims, the country's total COVID-19 deaths mounted to 53,816.
Some 6,151 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, some 9914 of whom have been hospitalized, she added.
Sadat Lari noted that 894,366 patients out of a total of 1,164,535 infected people have recovered or been discharged from the hospitals.
Some 5,519 other COVID-19 patients are in critical condition and being treated in intensive care units, the spokeswoman said.
She added that 7,097,556 tests have so far been carried out in Iran.