Tehran (IP)- The Spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health, Sima Sadat Lari, announced in her presser on Saturday that 562,705 people in the country have been infected with the coronavirus, and 450,891 of the total infected people have recovered.

Iran Press/Iran News: "According to definitive laboratory findings from yesterday to October 24, 2020, newly diagnosed patients with COVID-19 reached to 5,814 cases out of whom 2,169 of patients were hospitalized," Lari stated.

She added that in the past 24 hours, 335 COVID-19 patients had lost their lives, bringing the total death toll to 32,320.

4,952 COVID-19 patients are in critical condition.

"So far, 4,689,118 COVID-19 diagnosis tests have been conducted across the country," the Health Ministry spokeswoman noted.

She pointed out that Provinces of Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, East Azerbaijan, South Khorasan, Semnan, Qazvin, Lorestan, Ardabil, Khuzestan, Kermanshah, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Gilan, Bushehr, Zanjan, Ilam, Khorasan Razavi, Mazandaran, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Alborz, West Azerbaijan, Markazi, Kerman, North Khorasan, Hamadan, Yazd, and Kordestan are regarded as red zones.

Hormozgan, Fars, Golestan, and Sistan and Baluchestan provinces are also regarded as orange and yellow zones.

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