The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran has exceeded 119,000, according to the Health Ministry.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that the figures released by the Iranian Health Ministry on Saturday indicate that the coronavirus has taken the lives of 280 patients over the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll since the outbreak of the pandemic in February 2020 to 119,072.

According to the statistics, 10,843 new cases of COVID-19 infection have been reported across the country over the past 24 hours, with 1,567 of them hospitalized.