Reporting by PMOI/MEK
Iran, November 12, 2020—Over 151,800 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 465 cities checkered across all of Iran’s 31 provinces, according to reports tallied by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Thursday afternoon local time, November 12. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 40,121 nearly a fourth of the actual figure.
The coronavirus death toll in various provinces include: 36,891 in Tehran, 11,340 in Razavi Khorasan, 8518 in Isfahan, 6355 in Qom, 5547 in East Azerbaijan, 4649 in West Azerbaijan, 4185 in Alborz, 4115 in Fars, 3965 in Golestan, 3920 in Hamedan, 3871 in Sistan & Baluchistan, 3323 in Kermanshah, 2755 in Markzi (Central), 2600 in Yazd, 2525 in Kerman, 1684 in Bushehr, 1663 in Ardabil, 1425 in Zanjan, 1316 in South Khorasan, 1195 in Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari, and 1069 in Kohgiluyeh & Boyer Ahmed. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.
Infographic-Over 151,800 dead of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran
Regime President Hassan Rouhani resorted to more meaningless remarks today in the National Covid-19 Task Force meeting and refused to respond to increasing requests to shut down the country for at least two weeks. “Maintaining people’s health has always been the state’s main priority. The National Covid-19 Task Force will soon evaluate and adopt a comprehensive plan to manage the new phase of this illness,” he said on Thursday in a continuation of his daily lies.
“In some hospitals, each nurse has to look over ten Covid-19 patients. And these are nurses who are highly fatigued, both physically and psychologically, due to nine months of non-stop caring for coronavirus patients,” said the head of Iran’s Nursing Apparatus Organization in a letter to Rouhani on Thursday. “Currently more than 40,000 nurses have contracted Covid-19… it is necessary to immediately hire at least 30,000 new nurses and accelerate the process to pay the nurses’ paychecks and benefits,” the official added, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
“The number of hospitalized patients in Tehran province stands at 6721, of which 1832 are in ICUs. The number of people being released continues to remain lesser than new patients being hospitalized,” said Alireza Zali, head of the Tehran Covid-19 Task Force on Wednesday, according to the Tasnim news agency, an outlet linked to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force.
“Right now, our beds are full, and we cannot provide any more medical care. When a patient comes, we say go home and come back if you get more ill. When they do return the golden opportunities are long gone,” Zali said in a state TV interview on Wednesday.
“There is no one taking any responsibility. Everyone has become a reporter. There is no one taking responsibility for the 450 patients who died today,” said Mohammad Reza Hashemian, an ICU expert in Tehran’s Masih Daneshvari Hospital on Thursday. “No one says the country’s Covid-19 numbers are wrong or I am to blame. No one apologizes or says our problem is in this or that stage. We all understand this. There are people who initially made remarks against quarantine measures. Yet as time passed by and science proved that they were wrong, they did not even say we were wrong… I entered the Covid-19 Scientific Committee and since I took a strong position against anti-viral medication, they asked me to resign from the committee… If you express anything in opposition, it is as if the issue has become political,” he added, according to the state-run Farhikhtegan website.
The head of the ICU department in Mashhad’s Imam Reza hospital said on Thursday, “After nine months of bad working, mental, and physical conditions, more than 50 percent of nurses in the ICU section have contracted Covid-19, 20 percent of which have been hospitalized in the ICU section themselves. This is a disaster.” The health official, who spoke to the state-run Fartak News website, added, “The solution is the two-week shutdown. This is difficult, but must be implemented as a final solution. If we continue as is, there will be a disaster. The virus’s level of the disease has increased. The R ratio of the novel coronavirus was 3 at the beginning of the outbreak, but today, it has reached 8-10.”
Forty percent of Mashhad’s medical staff have contracted coronavirus, the head of the city’s Nurses Organization told the official IRNA news agency on Thursday. “The complete shutdown of red and black zones in the Razavi Khorasan province is necessary because economic issues are not more important than people’s lives,” the official added.
The spokesperson of the Covid-19 Task Force in Kerman province said, “Today, 23 patients in the province lost their lives to Covid-19. There are 728 hospitalized coronavirus patients. In some counties of the province, the coronavirus situation is very tense.” (Source: Tasnim News Agency, November 11)
Iran coronavirus outbreak death toll interactive map
