Iran on Friday confirmed 63 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 8,134.
A further 2,886 people tested positive for the virus, raising the overall count to 167,156, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said.
MORE THAN 2.500 PATIENTS ARE IN CRITICAL CONDITION
Jahanpour said 129,741 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far, while 2,573 patients remain in critical condition.
The country continued seeing an upward trend in daily infections in many provinces, especially in the southwestern Khuzestan province.
East and West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah and Hormozgan provinces are among the high-risk regions, he added.