Around 100 Million COVID Vaccines Injected in Iran
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian Health Ministry said on Monday that nearly 100 million jabs of COVID-19 vaccines have been injected across the country.
New figures released by the Health Ministry indicate that more than 99.04 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered in the country as of Monday, with over 55.86 million people having received the first dose of the vaccine.
While more than 37.14 million coronavirus diagnostic tests have been carried out in Iran so far, the total number of people tested positive has exceeded 6,045,000 following the detection of 7,494 new cases since Sunday.
Of the new cases detected in the past 24 hours, 1,060 patients have been admitted to the hospital.
At least 5,708,200 patients have recovered from the coronavirus infection so far or have been discharged from hospitals across Iran.
The ministry also put the death toll from COVID-19 in Iran at 128,272, saying the disease has taken the lives of 105 patients over the past 24 hours.
Among those undergoing treatment in medical centers at present, 3,491 coronavirus patients are in the intensive care units.
The number of people infected with COVID-19 across the world has surpassed 254 million and the death toll has exceeded 5.11 million.