Iran Press/Iran news: "According to definitive laboratory findings from yesterday to November 18, 2020, newly diagnosed patients with COVID-19 reached 13,223 cases out of whom 2,938 patients were hospitalized," the Spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health Sima Sadat Lari stated.
She added that in the past 24 hours, 476 COVID-19 patients had lost their lives, bringing the total death toll to 43,417, and 5,729 COVID-19 patients are in critical condition.
"So far, 5,667,538 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, Hamedan, Yazd, and Kurdistan are regarded as red zones.
Hormozgan, Fars, Golestan, and Sistan and Baluchestan provinces are also regarded as orange and yellow zones. 101
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