Iran registered 483 more coronavirus-related fatalities on Tuesday, raising the nationwide death toll to 25,738, according to the country’s Health Ministry.
DEATH TOLL ROSE TO 25,738
A total of 13,721 more people tested positive for coronavirus over the past 24 hours, pushing the overall count up to 880,542, according to spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari.
She also said that 617,715 patients have recovered so far, while 5,824 are in critical condition.
Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Reza Malekzadeh resigned Friday amid a spike in the number of novel coronavirus cases in the country, according to local media.
Malekzadeh accused Health Minister Saeed Namaki of mismanaging the pandemic and causing many casualties, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.