TEHRAN, Dec 10 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran reported 10,223 new COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of cases to 1,072,620, so far.
Of the newly infected, 1,747 had to be hospitalised, said Sima Sadat Lari, the spokeswoman for Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education, at her daily briefing.
The pandemic has already claimed 51,212 lives in Iran, up by 295 between Tuesday and yesterday.
A total of 765,639 patients have recovered or been released from hospitals, while 5,779 others are currently in critical condition, Lari noted.
The number of laboratory tests carried out so far is 6,523,409, she added.
The risk of infection is currently high in 64 Iranian counties on red alert, while 278 counties are orange-flagged, and 106 others are yellow.
Iran announced its first cases of COVID-19 on Feb 19.
Restrictions implemented since the third week of Nov, appear to have contained a steep surge of the pandemic, after daily deaths approached the 500 threshold.– NNN-IRNA
