Head of Tehran’s Corona Response Headquarters: Death Toll in Tehran Will Not Decrease for the Next Three Weeks
The commander of Tehran’s coronavirus response headquarters says that the death toll from coronavirus in the capital will not decrease over the next three weeks.
Alirezа Zali announced Monday night, November 2, that “given the number of 1,702 critically ill patients in intensive care units and 6,337 patients in regular wards in Tehran’s hospitals, there is no expectation of a decrease in deaths from coronavirus infection over the next three weeks.”
According to this official’s remarks, in just the last 24 hours, 10,500 people visited medical centers on an outpatient basis.
Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus patients admitted to hospitals reached 6,337 in a single day, setting a new record.
Monday evening, a session of Tehran’s coronavirus response headquarters was held with the attendance of Zali and seven selected governors as well as seven heads of medical science universities, the interior minister, and the health minister.
Zali, who spent a few minutes with reporters after the session ended, noted that with the continuation of intra-city traffic and high density in high-risk spaces, the capital’s traffic has not changed significantly.
The head of Tehran Province’s Islamic Propaganda Coordination Council also announced on the same day that based on the recommendation of the provincial coronavirus response headquarters, holding ceremonies on November 4 in Tehran and other cities has been canceled.
One day before this, Mohsen Hashemi, head of Tehran City Council, said that if effective measures are not taken to control coronavirus, there is a possibility of “a human catastrophe in December.”n
He also reported a roughly 100 percent increase in the death toll in Tehran compared to the same period last year.
Iran’s Interior Ministry announced in its latest action that starting from noon Monday, movement restrictions are being imposed at 25 provincial centers, and “the departure of private vehicles with local license plates” from the 25 provincial centers and “the entry of private vehicles with non-local license plates” to them is prohibited.
Monday, the official statistics for coronavirus cases in Iran and deaths from it set a new record, with more than 8,000 cases and 440 deaths recorded in a single day.
This is while the official statistics of the Health Ministry have always been subject to doubt and uncertainty, and the actual number is estimated to be up to four times the official figure.
Mohammadrezа Zafargandi, head of Iran’s Medical System Organization, also emphasized in his statements yesterday that the death toll is “at least three times” the figure announced by the Health Ministry.
Source: Radio Farda
