Sadat Lari said that, with the 160 new deaths, the country’s total COVID-19 death toll mounted to 11,731.
Some 2,613 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, some 1,468 of whom have been hospitalized, she added.
She noted that a total of 243,051 Iranians have been confirmed infected with the COVID-19, some 191,487 of whom have been discharged from hospital or recovered from the disease.
Some 3,201 other COVID-19 patients are in critical condition and being treated in intensive care units, the spokeswoman said.
She added that 1,820,003 tests have so far been carried out in Iran.
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