Coronavirus causes 20% of daily deaths in Iran; "25 provinces are in red and alert status"

The spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Health announced that 179 more people died from coronavirus, bringing the official death toll in the country to 13,211.

Sima Lari also said on Tuesday, July 14, that 2,521 more patients with coronavirus have been identified in the past 24 hours.

Of these people, 1,820, or more than half, have been hospitalized, and 3,389 patients with COVID-19 are in critical condition in hospitals across the country.

Including the statistics of the past 24 hours, the total number of people infected with the coronavirus in Iran has reached 262,173.

The announcement of daily figures for coronavirus infections and deaths in Iran continues, while serious doubts have been raised about the accuracy of these figures, and independent sources, based on civil registration and cemetery statistics, report multiple deaths of infected people in Iran.

Lari also said about the situation in Iran's provinces that East and West Azerbaijan, Ilam, Bushehr, Khorasan Razavi, Khuzestan, Zanjan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, Golestan, Mazandaran, and Hormozgan are in red.

According to him, the provinces of Tehran, Fars, Ardabil, Isfahan, Alborz, South Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Kerman, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad, Lorestan, Hamedan, Yazd, and North Khorasan are also on alert.

Iraj Harirchi, Deputy Minister of Health, has also announced that "one-fifth" of the daily death toll in Iran is related to patients with coronavirus.

According to the IRNA news agency on Tuesday, he said at a meeting of the coronavirus response headquarters in Hamedan province: "About 1,050 people in the country lose their lives every day, more than 200 of whom are coronavirus patients."

Harirchi called this statistic a "serious and worrying alarm bell," saying that "41 percent" of new cases of infection are due to family gatherings, and the remaining "51 percent" are related to families that have brought the disease into the home from outside.

He also warned against residents of red provinces traveling to other areas to avoid the disease, calling such trips a "time bomb" for the white provinces they are destined for.

Meanwhile, Mehr News Agency quoted the Director General of Public Relations and International Affairs of the Medical System Organization as saying that currently the largest number of people infected with the coronavirus who are hospitalized in Iranian hospitals are under the age of 50.

In a note, Hossein Kermanpour listed three characteristics of the second wave of Corona in Iran: "familial infection," "mortality among young people," and "fatigue among medical staff."

He warned that "the fatigue of medical staff, the excitement of the patient's companions, and the lowering of the age of mortality are like sparks in a powder keg."

The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran made the use of masks mandatory in public and indoor places six months after the outbreak of the coronavirus in Iran.

Iraj Harirchi, Iran's deputy health minister, has said that if 95% of people wear masks, using masks will be "more effective" than a vaccine.

Source: Radio Farda