Over 510,100 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 Monday afternoon local time, February 21. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 135,276, around a fourth of the actual figure.
The coronavirus death toll in various provinces include: 119,405 in Tehran, 40,965 in Razavi Khorasan, 35,460 in Isfahan, 30,765 in Khuzestan, 19,540 in Fars, 19,198 in West Azerbaijan, 17,638 in East Azerbaijan, 14,823 in Alborz, 13,842 in Kerman, 11,045 in Golestan, 9559 in Kermanshah, 8505 in Hormozgan, 6525 in Ardabil, 4863 in Ilam, and 4551 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 Monday as 19,110 new cases and 236 deaths. Furthermore, 4085 patients are in ICUs and 2514 of the new cases have been hospitalized.
While the spread of covid and the resulting deaths escalate due to the regime’s criminal policies and actions, the mullahs’ health minister issued a letter to the head of customs asking him to return 820,000 vaccine doses donated by Poland.
“Despite the initial documentation of 820,000 vaccine doses from the related area, the actual source was the United States,” said the caretaker of the Health Ministry Public Relations Office on Monday, according to the Mehr news agency, an outlet linked to the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).
“Forecasts indicate that the country’s coronavirus death toll will continue to escalate for the next one or two weeks,” said a senior National Covid-19 Task Force official on Monday, according to the Mehr news agency.
“Based on official reports during the past two years, more than 130,000 people have died of coronavirus. However, the actual stats differ due to comparisons with official figures, indicating more than 300,000 people have died. This figure is extracted from the official death toll of the country’s customs institutions,” according to a piece published on Monday in the state-run Etemad daily.
“In the next two weeks we may be facing an increasing death toll”
The number of people hospitalized up to Monday morning has increased to 4300, of which 1500 are in ICUs. During the past 24 hours we have had 800 new patients hospitalized, equal to all the beds of a large hospital,” said Alireza Zali, head of the Tehran Covid-19 Task Force on Monday, according to the Mehr news agency.
“We currently have 1434 coronavirus patients, of which 222 are in ICUs. During the past 24 hours 30 coronavirus patients have lost their lives,” according to a joint statement released by the Isfahan and Kashan Medical Sciences universities on Monday.
“Seventy percent of the people seeking medical care at hospitals have contracted omicron. During the past week this city has registered a new record in the numbers of people seeking initial medical care and those being hospitalized,” said the governor of Pars Abad in Ardabil province on Monday, according to the state-run IMNA news agency.
“More than 1130 coronavirus patients are hospitalized and more than one-fourth of them are in ICUs. 75 percent of the ICU patients are hospitalized in Mashhad,” according to a statement released on Monday by the Mashhad Medical Sciences University regarding Razavi Khorasan province.
“The number of minors seeking initial medical care and being hospitalized for coronavirus in this province has increased by 200 to 300 percent,” said the head of Akbar Children’s Hospital on Monday, according to the semi-official ILNA news agency.
“During the past four weeks, we registered the highest number of new cases on February 8 with more 1300 patients on that day. All the while, on January 21 we only 65 new cases,” said the dean of West Azerbaijan Medical Sciences University on Monday, according to the regime’s official IRNA news agency.
“When comparing the past four weeks to the same period last year we see a 126 percent increase in the number of deaths,” said the dean of Zahedan Medical Sciences University on Monday regarding Sistan & Baluchistan province, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
