Official COVID-19 Statistics in Iran; Gradual Decline in Official Death Toll

Iran’s Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday, March 2, the death of 203 additional coronavirus patients and the identification of 6,234 new cases of the virus.

According to this report, with the inclusion of these figures over the past 24 hours, the total number of coronavirus deaths in Iran reached 137,267 people and the total number of infected cases reached 7,066,975 people.

Currently, 4,066 COVID-19 patients are under intensive care in hospital wards.

Iran’s Ministry of Health announced daily statistics at a time when independent sources have serious doubts about the accuracy of the reported figures, particularly regarding mortality rates.

Since the beginning of autumn this year, the daily death toll record from coronavirus has been broken several times, and on the second day of Shahrivar with 709 daily deaths, according to official statistics, the highest number of casualties since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in the country was recorded.

According to Hamidreza Jamati, the scientific secretary of the corona response committee, children’s infection with coronavirus during the Omicron peak is approximately 20 to 30 percent higher than Delta, and currently in Iran approximately 20 percent of coronavirus patients in the sixth peak are children.

Simultaneously, some government officials warned of a possible “travel tsunami” during Nowruz and expressed concern about the possibility of another wave of coronavirus outbreak following the Nowruz 1401 holidays.

Source: Radio Farda