The Iranian authorities have released about 36 thousand prisoners within the program to defeat COVID-19 in prisons, Tasnim reported referring to the head of the prisons organization Mehdi Haj-Mohammadi.

Thus, since July 8, 36,283 people have been released.

According to the latest data, over 276.2 thousand COVID-19 cases have been detected in Iran, of which about 14.4 thousand are fatal. Over 240 thousand people have already recovered.