Iran\u2019s Health Ministry spokeswoman has confirmed 8,293 new cases of COVID-19 infection in the past 24 hours, the highest record since the beginning of the outbreak.<\/p>\n
In a press briefing on Thursday, Sima-Sadat Lari said the new cases raise the total number of cases to 596,941.<\/p>\n
She said the virus has also killed 399 patients since Wednesday noon, raising the overall death toll to 34,113.<\/p>\n
So far, she added, 472,598 patients have recovered from the disease or been discharged from the hospital.<\/p>\n
Lari said 5,055 patients are also in critical conditions caused by more severe infection.<\/p>\n
The spokeswoman noted that 4,857,392 COVID-19 tests have been taken across the country so far.<\/p>\n
She said the high-risk \u201cred\u201d zones include Tehran, Qom, Mazandaran, East Azarbaijan, Isfahan, Yazd, Ardabil, Khorasan Razavi, Khuzestan, Hamadan, West Azarbaijan, Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Alborz, Lorestan, Markazi, Ilam, South Khorasan, Kermanshah, North Khorasan, Semnan, Gilan, Zanjan, Qazvin, Kurdistan, and Kerman provinces.
\nThe \u201corange\u201d and \u201cyellow\u201d zones also include Golestan, Hormozgan, Fars, and Sistan and Baluchestan provinces, she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Iran\u2019s Health Ministry spokeswoman has confirmed 8,293 new cases of COVID-19 infection in the past 24 hours, the highest record since the beginning of the outbreak. In a press briefing on Thursday, Sima-Sadat Lari said the new cases raise the total number of cases to 596,941. She said the virus has also killed 399 patients […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,4],"tags":[1093,1069,1079,966,28,639,178,56,84,638],"yoast_head":"\n