Tehran (IP) - The Spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health, Sima Sadat Lari, announced on Sunday that 620,491 people in the country have been infected with the coronavirus, and 486,691 of the total infected have recovered.

Iran PressIran News: "According to definitive laboratory findings from yesterday to November 1, 2020, newly diagnosed patients with COVID-19 reached 7,719 cases out of whom 2,389 patients were hospitalized," Lari stated.

She added that in the past 24 hours, 434 COVID-19 patients had lost their lives, bringing the total death toll to 35,298.

"5,244 COVID-19 patients are in critical condition," said Lari.

"So far, 4,965,326 COVID-19 diagnosis tests have been conducted across the country," the health ministry spokeswoman noted.

She pointed out that the 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 Kurdistan 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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