Shafaq News / Iran has announced on Wednesday that it has recorded 147 new deaths from "COVID-19" virus over the past 24 hours.

The Iranian Ministry of Health reported that the number of people recovering from the new Corona virus in the country increased during the past 24 hours from 988 to 1135 cases.

The ministry added that it had monitored 1192 new infections last day, increasing the overall number of recorded patients from 16,169 to 17,361 cases.

While the ministry indicated that the number of people recovering after infection with the new Corona virus rose from 5,389 to 5,710 cases.