TEHRAN, Iran — Iran reports 121 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, bringing its overall number of fatalities to 3,993.
In the past 24 hours, 1,997 new cases of COVID-19 infection were detected in Iran, state news agency IRNA quotes health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour as saying.
That put the number of confirmed cases at 64,586, he adds.
Iran, which announced its first COVID-19 cases on February 19, is by far the worst hit by the pandemic in the Middle East, according to official tolls.
But there has been speculation abroad that the real number of deaths and infections in the country could be higher.
Jahanpour says that while 3,956 patients were in critical condition, those who recovered had reached 29,812.
The spokesman adds that Iran had carried out 220,975 COVID-19 tests to date, according to IRNA.
— AFP
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