Iran's coronavirus death toll
'worse than any country in the world'
"More than 17,500 people
have died" of Covid-19 pandemic in Iran after the regime's campaign of
spreading disinformation, according to opposition activists and groups
ByAnna Savva
14:18, 5 APR 2020
Iran is the deadliest
coronavirus-hit country in the world, according to anti-government activists.
Claims coming out of the Middle
Eastern country are that "more than 17,500 people have died'"of
pandemic-causing infection – far surpassing official figures.
If true it would mean Iran is
the worst-hit country in the world, surpassing the 15,362 currently cited by
Italian authorities.
The killer virus is cited to
have spread across 240 cities, checkered across all of Iran's 31 provinces, the
People's Mojahedin
Organization of Iran say while accusing the Iranian regime of spreading
disinformation.
According to doctors in Iran,
the number of viral infections is said to be peaking, while the government say
the numbers are going down.
Government investigating
conspiracy coronavirus started in China bioweapons lab
Official government stats
record 58,226 cases and 3,603 deaths at the time of publication – over 12,000
deaths lower than opposition groups allege.
Last week Iran president Hassan
Rouhani described the figures encouraging and said, “The number of those
admitted to hospitals has fallen and the situation in 23 provinces are good and
the conditions are acceptable.”
On March 30 the regime’s
national TV showed a meeting between Rouhani and a group of physicians where
one of them reacted to Rouhani’s comment claiming that the whole world had been
caught off guard.
Iranian doctors say the
government is lying about the number of coronavirus deaths
He told Rouhani: “My request is
to speak with proof. We cannot run a country with guesses and assumptions. As a
university lecturer, I say that we did not use many potentials of the country.
Mr President, the whole world was caught off guard, but we were caught off
guard with our hands tied up.”
Another physician told Rouhani,
“In many parts of the country including Tehran we have not yet reached a peak.
It is necessary that we maintain a state of isolation and quarantine for some
three to four weeks. SARS virus had a number of peaks, therefore this virus may
stay with us for a year or two.”
At the same the University of
Medical Science of Kurdistan reported seven under 10-year-old children had been
infected and warned that the peak is underway in Kurdistan province.
Dr Mohebi from Ali Ben Abitalib
hospital in Qom also said on March 29 the number people admitted to hospitals
has risen much higher compared with last month and beds are in short supply.
Some desperate Iranians have
taken to home-made cures to ward off the virus, with recent reports that 300
people died after drinking neat methanol last week.
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