Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, Nov. 21


By Liu Lu

TEHRAN -- The total number of COVID-19 infections confirmed in Iran rose on Saturday to 841,308, after 12,931 new cases were registered in the past 24 hours.

Sima Sadat Lari, the spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education, said at her daily briefing that 2,155 of the newly infected required hospitalization. (Iran-COVID-19)

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