TEHRAN, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian Health Ministry reported on Monday 14,470 new COVID-19 cases, taking the country's total infections to 5,547,990.
According to an official briefing, the pandemic has claimed 119,649 lives in the country so far, after 289 deaths were registered in the past 24 hours.
A total of 4,966,098 people have recovered from the disease or been discharged from hospitals across the country, while 6,209 remain in intensive care units, the ministry said on its official website.
By Monday, 36,303,822 people have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine in the country, while 15,646,961 have taken two doses.
The official report added that 31,868,828 tests have so far been carried out across the country.
Iran has been recently facing a surge of the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Enditem
