Corona in Iran: 50 Cases Per Hour and One Death Every 10 Minutes
According to Kianush Jahanpour, the latest data on the corona epidemic in Iran indicates that 50 people are infected with the disease every hour and one patient dies every 10 minutes. The actual figures are even higher.
Kianush Jahanpour, head of the Public Relations and Media Center of Iran’s Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education, wrote on Thursday, March 29 (March 19) on his Twitter account about the latest statistics of coronavirus patients in Iran: “Every hour 50 people in Iran are infected with COVID-19 disease and every ten minutes, one person loses their life due to the consequences of coronavirus infection.”
The IRNA news agency, in reporting this news, quoted this official and advised the public to make “informed” decisions regarding travel and Nowruz visits and gatherings. According to the statistics of this news agency, as of Wednesday, March 18 (March 18), 17,361 people in Iran have been “confirmed” infected with the coronavirus. Of this number, 1,135 people have lost their lives and 5,710 people have recovered.
This was while on the same day (Wednesday), Iraj Harirchi, deputy health minister of Rouhani’s government, said: “The coronavirus takes the lives of three people in Iran every hour and infects 43 people.”
According to him, the public’s lack of attention to doctors’ recommendations and attendance at gatherings “is a major factor in the spread of coronavirus in society, and people should not contribute to the deaths of their fellow citizens by attending crowded places.”
The Iranian government admitted to the spread of the coronavirus in Iran later than it should have. Subsequently, reports of hoarding necessary supplies to protect people in the media further reduced public confidence in the solutions recommended by the government. Factional disputes also fueled the government’s inability to control the disease.
Moreover, some segments of the population are not willing to heed doctors’ advice and refrain from traveling to other cities or avoiding gatherings. One example is the holding of the Wednesday Fire ceremony on one hand and the rush of a group of extremists to Shiite pilgrimage sites in Mashhad and Qom on the other.
On Thursday, a meeting of the heads of the three branches of the Islamic Republic was also held at the office of Hassan Rouhani, the president of Iran. At this meeting, Saeed Namaki, Minister of Health, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, Minister of Interior, Mohammad Eslami, Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Mohammad Nahavandian, Economic Deputy to the President, Sorena Sattari, Scientific and Technology Deputy to the President, and Mahmoud Vaezi, Head of the President’s Office, participated as heads of the main committees of the National Coronavirus Control Headquarters.
The IRNA news agency did not release any news about the decisions of this meeting.
Source: DW
