TEHRAN, Apr 25 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian health ministry, yesterday reported 18,230 COVID-19 cases, taking the country’s total infections to 2,377,039. The pandemic has so far claimed 69,120 lives in Iran, up by 374 in the past 24 hours, the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education said.
A total of 1,863,405 people have recovered or been discharged from hospitals, while 5,156 remain in intensive care units, the report noted.
The ministry said, 15,078,540 tests were carried out across the country. By yesterday, 584,736 people have received the first doses of the vaccines and 157,258 the second doses.
The number of hospitalised COVID-19 patients went up by 17 percent, during the past seven days, Sima Sadat Lari, the ministry’s spokeswoman, said yesterday, in an interview with the ministry’s official online outlet.
“The average incidence of hospitalisation last week was 28.2 per 100,000 inhabitants, and the highest incidence of hospitalisation was recorded in the provinces of Hamadan, Ilam, Semnan, Lorestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari,” she noted.
Also yesterday, the Iranian interior minister issued a ban on “all freight and passenger traffic with India, direct or indirect,” given the surge in COVID-19 cases in the country.
Currently, Iran implements restrictions on businesses and travels in high-risk areas, amid a new wave of the virus spread in the country.– NNN-IRNA
