Tehran (IP) - According to the latest figures by Iran's health ministry, as of Sunday, the total number of COVID-19 recovered patients in the country has surpassed 600,000.

Iran Press/Iran news: The Spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health Sima Sadat Lari announced on Sunday that 854,361 people in the country have been infected with the coronavirus, and 603,445 of the total infected people have recovered.

"According to definitive laboratory findings from yesterday to November 22, 2020, newly diagnosed patients with COVID-19 reached 13,053 cases out of whom 2,160 patients were hospitalized," the spokeswoman for Iran's ministry of health stated.

She added that in the past 24 hours, 475 COVID-19 patients had lost their lives, bringing the total death toll to 44,802.

5,796 COVID-19 patients are in critical condition.

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 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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