The latest death toll announced by the health ministry took to 724 the official number of people to have been killed by the disease since last month.
Iran on Sunday urged its citizens to stick to guidelines and stay at home to stop the new Coronavirus spreading, as it announced another 113 deaths from the outbreak.
People “should cancel all travel and stay at home so that we may see the situation improving in the coming days,” ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said in a televised news conference.
Jahanpour also reported 1,209 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections, raising the total number of confirmed infections to 13,938.
Tehran province had the highest number of new infections with 251 fresh cases.
Khorasan Razavi province, home to the holy Shiite city of Mashhad, followed with 143 cases.
The outbreak in Iran is one of the deadliest outside of China, where the disease originated.
