Lari said that with the 61 new victims, the country's total COVID-19 deaths mounted to 58,686.
Some 7,585 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, some 611 of whom have been hospitalized, she added.
Lari noted that 1,272,287 patients out of a total of 1,488,981 infected people have recovered or been discharged from the hospitals.
Some 3,743 other COVID-19 patients are in critical condition and being treated in intensive care units, the spokeswoman said.
She added that 9,831,993 tests have so far been carried out in Iran.
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