Unprecedented Daily Death Toll from Coronavirus in Iran; Approximately 500 Deaths
Since the official confirmation of coronavirus outbreak in Iran, no day has recorded a death toll as high as the sixth day of Ordibehesht. The fourth wave of the pandemic is sweeping Iran at a time when concerns about the entry of the “Indian mutant virus” have increased.
The Public Relations Center of the Ministry of Health announced in a statement released on Monday, the sixth of Ordibehesht, that 21,026 new cases of coronavirus infection have been identified in Iran in the past 24 hours.
In the past 24 hours, 496 patients with COVID-19 died in Iran. This is the highest number of coronavirus victims in a single day over the past 14 months.
Previously, the highest daily death toll from coronavirus in Iran was at the peak of the third wave, when 486 deaths among coronavirus patients were recorded on November 16 of last year.
Highest Daily Death Count After India and Brazil
With yesterday’s 24-hour casualties, the death toll from COVID-19 in Iran surpassed the 70,000 mark. During this period, only India and Brazil have had higher daily death counts than Iran. Coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours were reported at approximately 2,800 in India and approximately 1,300 in Brazil.
India has been grappling in recent days with a severe wave of increased cases and deaths related to COVID-19, and some observers believe that a mutant strain of the coronavirus may not be unrelated to this.
Although precise and reliable information about the transmissibility of the Indian mutant virus is not yet available, the possibility has prompted many countries to take precautionary measures and ban or restrict travel to this country.
Warning About the Mutant Virus in India
According to ISNA news agency, Ebrahim Azizi, head of the security committee of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Parliament, warned on Monday: “Today the important issue is the discussion of the Indian coronavirus, which has raised the alarm and travel to India must be halted as quickly as possible and any flights and ground traffic must be canceled.”
The new wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Iran began from the start of Farvardin and its intensity gradually increased, one of the manifestations of which has been a sharp increase in the number of cities in red (very high risk) and orange (high risk) conditions.
According to the Ministry of Health announcement, on the first day of Farvardin, only 12 Iranian cities were in a red coronavirus situation; this number has increased more than 25-fold over the past week and has reached 301 cities.
Source: DW
