Iran has reported 200 new deaths from coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the number of deaths from the virus to 11,931, the Health Ministry Spokeswoman Sima Lari said in her daily press conference on Tuesday.
After 2,637 more people tested positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the number of infections has risen to 245,688 in the country.
There are at least 3,270 people in intensive care units, Lari said, adding that, of those tested positive for the virus, 207,000 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospital.
So far, more than 1,846,793 tests have been taken across the country to detect infected cases, said the Health Ministry spokeswoman.
She described the condition in the provinces of Kordestan, Bushehr, Ilam, Khuzestan, East Azarbaijan, West Azarbaijan, Kermanshah, Khorasan Razavi and Hormozgan as a red status, adding that the condition in provinces of that Tehran, Isfahan, Mazandaran, Golestan, Hamedan, Yazd, Kerman, Alborz, Hamedan and Sistan and Baluchestan are alarming.
According to Worldometer, which is a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics, the global death toll from coronavirus has surpassed 541,512 with 11,772,101 cases and more than 6,766,551 recoveries. (ILKHA)
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