Over 495,300 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 Wednesday afternoon local time, January 5. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 131,778, around a fourth of the actual figure.
The coronavirus death toll in various provinces include: 115,780 in Tehran, 39,945 in Razavi Khorasan, 34,310 in Isfahan, 18,683 in West Azerbaijan, 16,390 in Lorestan, 13,352 in Kerman, 9264 in Kermanshah, 9183 in Hamedan, 6525 in Semnan, 6328 in North Khorasan, 4728 in Ilam, and 4371 in South Khorasan. 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 Wednesday as 42 deaths and 1171 new cases. Furthermore, 2352 patients are in ICUs and 372 of the new cases have been hospitalized.
“The number of coronavirus patients hospitalized in the past two days in southwest Khuzestan province has doubled. Therefore, considering what we have seen regarding the omicron variant and the increasing number of people hospitalized in the region, the threat of entering the sixth peak is quite real,” said the dean of Abadan Medical Sciences University on Wednesday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
“We are concerned about the explosive spread of omicron. This variant is spreading immeasurably across Europe and if it starts spreading in our country, too, we will witness similar circumstances in Fars province,” said the dean of Shiraz Medical Sciences University on Wednesday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
“Two cases of omicron have been confirmed in Ardastan and this town has joined the cities and towns in which omicron has been identified in. Considering the high pace of this virus spreading it is likely that many more people have contracted it in this town,” said the director of Ardastan Health Network in Isfahan province on Wednesday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
“We currently have 358 coronavirus patients, of which 104 are in ICUs and 35 are under ventilators,” according to a report released on Wednesday by the West Azerbaijan Medical Sciences University on Wednesday, according to regime’s official IRNA news agency.
“As of today, we have 229 coronavirus patients, of which 50 are in ICUs and 14 under ventilators,” said the dean of Golestan Medical Sciences University on Wednesday, according to the regime’s officials IRIB news agency.
