Sima Sadat Lari said that with the 123 new victims, the country's total COVID-19 deaths mounted to 62,999.
Some 11,420 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, some 1,060 of whom have been hospitalized, she added.
Sadat Lari noted that 1,642,418 patients out of a total of 1,920,394 infected people have recovered or been discharged from the hospitals.
Some 4,024 other COVID-19 patients are in critical condition and being treated in intensive care units, the spokeswoman said.
She added that 13,038,709 tests have so far been carried out in Iran.
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