Publish Date: 29 August 2020 - 14:58

COVID-19 kills 110 more Iranians over past 24 hours

Tehran, August 29, IRNA – Iran’s Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said on Saturday that some 110 more Iranians have died from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours.

The health ministry spokeswoman said that, with the 110 new deaths, the country's total COVID-19 death toll mounted to 21,359.

Some 1,905 new cases of infection with the nCOVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, some 857 of whom have been hospitalized, Sadat Lari said.

She said that a total of 371,816 Iranians have been confirmed infected with the COVID-19, some 319,847 of whom have been recovered or discharged from the hospitals.

Some 3,791 other COVID-19 patients are in critical conditions and being treated in intensive care units, the spokeswoman said.

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