The number of coronavirus cases in Iran has reached four digits again
On Monday, July 4, the Iranian Ministry of Health announced, based on official statistics, that the number of daily coronavirus infections once again reached four digits, reaching 1,070 people.
According to official statistics, the last time the number of people infected with the coronavirus in the country was in the four-digit range on May 27 of this year, with 1,009 people, and after that, the number began to decline.
According to this report, eight patients also lost their lives in the past 24 hours, bringing the official total number of Covid deaths in Iran to 141,404.
Currently, 232 patients with COVID-19 are being cared for in hospital intensive care units.
The increasing trend in the number of infected people comes despite the fact that yesterday the Ministry of Health announced a "triple" increase in the number of visits to hospitals due to coronavirus in the first week of July, and a member of the scientific committee of the Coronavirus Response Headquarters warned that two new strains of coronavirus will likely spread in Iran soon.
In this context, Navid Shafiq, a "specialist in intensive care," also told Mehr News Agency that currently, "it is clearly seen that positive coronavirus tests have increased in patients hospitalized in the wards, despite the fact that the number of tests has decreased significantly."
According to Dr. Shafiq, the resurgence in the number of infections "could indicate the beginning of the next peak and an increase in deaths in the country," and the reason for this is likely a decrease in "observance of health care principles and wearing masks like in the past" among the public.
The intensive care specialist also added that the resurgence of the Covid virus "will first manifest itself as an increase in the number of patients, and then the number of critically ill patients will increase, and ultimately we will face an increase in mortality."
The renewed increase in the number of coronavirus infections in Iran comes as Iranians are planning to increase their pilgrimages to holy shrines on the eve of Eid al-Adha. The first caravan of holy shrines, after a three-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, left for Karbala from the Shalamcheh border on July 2.
BioNTech and Pfizer, which have jointly produced one of the most reliable coronavirus vaccines, announced on Wednesday, July 28, that they will begin testing a new generation of coronavirus vaccine that can be used against a wide range of strains of the virus in the second half of this year.
Source: Radio Farda
