Official Corona statistics in Iran; Gradual decrease in official death toll

On Wednesday, March 1, the Iranian Ministry of Health announced the death of 203 more patients infected with the coronavirus and the identification of 6,234 new patients infected with the virus.

According to this report, including these statistics over the past 24 hours, the total number of coronavirus deaths in Iran reached 137,267 and the total number of infected people reached 7,66,975.

Currently, 4,066 patients with COVID-19 are being cared for in intensive care units of hospitals.

The daily statistics of the Iranian Ministry of Health are being announced at a time when independent sources have serious doubts about the accuracy of the statistics provided, especially in the field of mortality.

Since the beginning of autumn this year, the daily death toll from the coronavirus has been broken several times, and on September 2nd, with 709 daily deaths, according to official statistics, the highest number of deaths was recorded since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

According to Hamidreza Jamati, the scientific secretary of the Committee to Combat Coronavirus, the incidence of coronavirus in children in the Amicron peak is about twenty to thirty percent higher than in Delta, and currently, about twenty percent of those infected with coronavirus in Iran in the sixth peak are children.

At the same time, some government officials have announced the possibility of a "travel tsunami" during Nowruz and have warned of the possibility of another wave of coronavirus outbreaks after the Nowruz 1401 holiday.

Source: Radio Farda