In a press briefing on Saturday, Sima-Sadat Lari said the virus has killed 335 patients since Friday noon, increasing the overall death toll to 32,320.
She said 562,705 patients have contracted the novel coronavirus so far, including 5,814 new cases identified in the past 24 hours.
Lari said 4,952 patients are also in critical conditions caused by more severe infection.
The spokeswoman noted that 4,689,118 COVID-19 tests have been taken across the country so far.
She said the high-risk “red” zones include Tehran, Qom, Mazandaran, East Azarbaijan, Isfahan, Yazd, Ardabil, Khorasan Razavi, Khuzestan, Hamadan, West Azarbaijan, Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Alborz, Lorestan, Markazi, Ilam, South Khorasan, Kermanshah, North Khorasan, Semnan, Gilan, Zanjan, Qazvin, Kurdistan, and Kerman provinces.
The “orange” and “yellow” zones also include Golestan, Hormozgan, Fars, and Sistan and Baluchestan provinces, she added.
