Some 67 deaths were caused by COVID-19 in Iran over the past 24 hours, spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education Sima Sadat Lari said on Thursday.






Lari said that another 67 people have lost their lives due to the deadly virus during the past 24 hours in Iran.

According to her report, the number of the total death toll reached 58,256.

Elaborating on the latest situation of the coronavirus pandemic in Iran, Lari said that�7,040 new cases infected with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, some�590 of whom have been hospitalized.

She added that 1,445,326�Iranians have totally been confirmed infected with COVID-19, some 1,235,581 of whom have either recovered or been discharged from hospitals.

Lari further underlined that 3,825�COVID-19 patients are in critical conditions and under treatment in intensive care units of the hospitals.

Sadat Lari�added that�9,504,930�coronavirus tests have so far been carried out in Iran.

Since its outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic has infected about 104 million people across the world, from whom over�2,200,000 people have lost their lives.