Iran has confirmed 386 new fatalities caused by the novel coronavirus, increasing the overall death toll to 34,864.<\/p>\n
In a press briefing on Saturday, Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima-Sadat Lari reported 7,820 new cases of COVID-19 infection, raising the total number of cases to 612,772.
\nSo far, she added, 481,930 patients have recovered from the disease or been discharged from the hospital.<\/p>\n
Lari said 5,185 patients are also in critical conditions caused by more severe infection.<\/p>\n
The spokeswoman noted that 4,929,005 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.<\/p>\n
The \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 has confirmed 386 new fatalities caused by the novel coronavirus, increasing the overall death toll to 34,864. In a press briefing on Saturday, Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima-Sadat Lari reported 7,820 new cases of COVID-19 infection, raising the total number of cases to 612,772. So far, she added, 481,930 patients have recovered from the disease […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,4],"tags":[118,1093,1069,966,28,31,639,178,84],"yoast_head":"\n