81 more Iranians die of COVID-19 in 24Hrs
According to Iran's Health Ministry, some 81 Iranians have lost their lives across the country over the past 24 hours, bringing the total deaths to 62,478.
Iran's Health Ministry spokesperson Sima Sadat Lari made the annoucement on Monday.
According to her report 9,310 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, 1,157 of whom were hospitalized.
The health official added that
with the 81 new deaths, the country's total COVID-19 deaths mounted to 62,478.
Lari noted that 1,600,488 patients out of a total of 1,864,984 infected people have recovered or been discharged from hospitals.
Some 3,940 COVID-19 patients are in critical condition and being treated in intensive care units, the spokeswoman said.
She went on to say that 12,682,968 coronavirus diagnosis tests have so far been carried out across the country.
Since its outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic has infected over 127 million people across the world, of whom over 2,790,000 people have lost their lives.