Iran reported 21,713 new Covid-19 cases, taking the country's total infections to 24,59,906.The pandemic has thus far claimed 70,966 lives in Iran, up by 434 in the past 24 hours, according to the daily briefing of Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education

A total of 1,923,081 people have recovered from the disease or been discharged from hospitals across the country, while 5,338 remained in intensive care units, it said. The ministry said that 15,562,560 tests have so far been carried out across the country.

Iran has recently implemented restrictions on businesses and travels in high-risk areas amid a new wave of the virus spread in the country. Iran reported its first cases of the disease in February 2020.

Global Covid-19 Updates: The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 149.1 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.14 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 149,197,932 and 3,146,284, respectively.

The other countries with more than two million confirmed coronavirus cases are Brazil (14,521,289), France (5,626,985), Turkey (4,751,026), Russia (4,732,981), the UK (4,427,446), Italy (3,994,894), Spain (3,504,799), Germany (3,351,014), Argentina (2,928,890), Colombia (2,824,626), Poland (2,776,927), Iran (2,459,906) and Mexico (2,336,944), the CSSE figures showed.

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