The number of COVID-19 cases in Iran has increased by 3,134, an upward trend compared to the previous day, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said on Wednesday.
This takes infections beyond 160,000, with the death toll now exceeding 8,000, Jahanpur said.
On Tuesday, the daily increase was at 3,117.
“The country has a total of 160,696 coronavirus infection cases.
“In the past 24 hours, we have been able to detect 3,134 new coronavirus cases.
“The good news is that 125,206 people have recovered,” Jahanpur said on the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network channel.
According to him, 70 new fatalities from COVID-19 have been detected in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 8,012.
In the past month, the spread of COVID-19 in the country was marked by an ebb-and-flow dynamic, with spikes in new cases followed by lulls and vice versa.