“With 122 new deaths in the past 24 hours, the death toll from the virus has reached 4,232. Unfortunately, we had 1,972 new cases since yesterday,” Jahanpour said on state TV.
He also put the number of those who have so far recovered from the viral infection at 35,465.
The coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan, China, has infected over 1.5 million people around the world. The global death toll from the pandemic is now more than 90,000.