Official coronavirus statistics: The number of victims has exceeded 25,000, Tehran is in the red zone
According to statistics from the Iranian Ministry of Health, with the death of 175 patients infected with the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the official number of victims of the virus in Iran has exceeded 25,000.
The head of the Tehran City Council has also announced that the number of coronavirus victims in Tehran has increased again after a period of decline, reaching 70 people per day.
Sima Lari, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, announced in her daily report on Thursday, October 23, the identification of 3,521 new patients with COVID-19, and said that currently, nearly 4,000 patients in severe condition are under intensive care.
According to this official report, the total number of coronavirus patients in Iran has reached 436,319.
The accuracy of the daily and official statistics announced by the Ministry of Health has always been seriously questioned by some independent experts, and some sources say that the number of infections and victims in Iran is between two and several times the official figures.
In another report, Mohsen Hashemi, the head of Tehran City Council, said: "The number of coronavirus deaths in Tehran previously rose to more than a hundred people per day and then decreased again to 49 people, but now this number has increased again and reached 70 people per day."
In this context, Iraj Harirchi, Iran's Deputy Minister of Health, declared the situation in Tehran province to be "super red" on Tuesday, October 21, and at the same time, Mostafa Moein, the head of the Supreme Council of the Iranian Medical System, also announced that 700 people were hospitalized in Tehran in one day, describing it as a "major disaster."
He also said about the provinces in a state of alert: "The provinces of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Hormozgan, Fars and Golestan are also in a state of alert."
According to the Ministry of Health, the provinces of Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, East Azerbaijan, South Khorasan, Semnan, Qazvin, Lorestan, Ardabil, Khuzestan, Kermanshah, Gilan, Bushehr, Zanjan, Ilam, Khorasan Razavi, Mazandaran, Alborz, West Azerbaijan, Markazi, Kerman, North Khorasan, Hamedan, and Yazd are currently in red status.
The provinces of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Hormozgan, Fars, and Golestan are also on alert.
The two provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan and Kurdistan have currently been declared the only white provinces in Iran, and the reason for this distinction is not clear.
Source: Radio Farda
