Sima Sadat Lari announced at a press conference on Sunday that the total number of people tested positive for COVID-19 infection in Iran has exceeded 2,654,800 following the detection of 14,141 new cases since yesterday.
Of the new cases detected in the past 24 hours, 2,044 patients have been admitted to the hospital, she added.
At least 2,109,700 patients have recovered from the coronavirus infection so far or have been discharged from hospitals across Iran, the spokeswoman added.
She further put the death toll from COVID-19 in Iran at 74,910, saying the disease has taken the lives of 386 patients over the past 24 hours.
Among those undergoing treatment in medical centers at present, 5,538 coronavirus patients have critical health conditions because of more severe infection, Lari noted.
The spokeswoman also said more than 17 million coronavirus diagnostic tests have been carried out in Iran so far and over 1,378,000 people have received the first dose of coronavirus vaccine.
The number of people infected with COVID-19 across the world has surpassed 158 million and the death toll has exceeded 3.29 million.