Over 484,800 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 547 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 Saturday afternoon local time, December 4. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 130,124, around a fourth of the actual figure.
The coronavirus death toll in various provinces include: 113,545 in Tehran, 33,280 in Isfahan, 29,420 in Khuzestan, 17,670 in Mazandaran, 16,718 in East Azerbaijan, 13,140 in Qom, 8848 in Markazi (Central), 6420 in Semnan, 6100 in Ardabil, 5604 in Qazvin, 5414 in Bushehr, and 3735 in Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.
The regime’s Health Ministry announced the mullahs’ engineered Covid-19 numbers from the past 24 hours on Friday as 58 deaths and 2157 new cases. Furthermore, 3278 patients are in ICUs and 463 of the new cases have been hospitalized. “The cities of Tabas (in South Khorasan province) and Bahabad (in Yazd province) have once again been registered as red zones due to an increasing trend of coronavirus patients being hospitalized,” according to today’s Health Ministry statement.
“We are against the reopening of schools in any form. The reopening of schools that should not be reopened, and in which classes should not be held with students attending in presence, will most definitely help in the rise of new cases. Therefore, on behalf of the medical society we are requesting that firstly, parents should not send their kids to schools that should not be reopened. Secondly, we call on school principals to not emphasize on parents to send their children to schools in person,” according to a statement released on Saturday by the South Khorasan Medical Sciences University.
“It has been two weeks that they have cancelled all online classes in order to force students back to schools. Thirty students in one class without social distancing. Conditions in some schools indicate the reopening of schools will lead to more coronavirus cases,” according to a piece published on Saturday in the state-run Asr-e Iran daily regarding Qom province.
“The number of new Covid-19 cases in the three cities of Hendijan, Gatvand, and Shadegan has been increasing. The process of tacking and finding new patients in these cities need to be enhanced,” said the dean of Jundishapur Medical Sciences University in Ahvaz on Saturday regarding Khuzestan province.
“Currently we are facing the threat of a sixth coronavirus wave. We need to take this threat seriously,” said the governor of Alborz province on Saturday, according to the Fars news agency, an outlet linked to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
“The city of Bahabad in Yazd province has become a red zone area. Bafq has been registered as orange and six cities in this province have been registered as yellow areas,” according to a statement released on Saturday by the Yazd Medical Sciences University.
