The ministry’s tally also put the daily caseload at 288 including 44 hospitalizations.
Covid has so far killed 141,253 people in Iran. The global death toll is millions.
The downward trend in Iran has held for the past couple of weeks. Authorities attribute the containment of the disease to people’s observance of health protocols and also a nationwide vaccination campaign that has seen the inoculation of tens of millions of Iranians