Over 497,100 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 Wednesday afternoon local time, January 12. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 131,972, around a fourth of the actual figure.
The coronavirus death toll in various provinces include: 116,130 in Tehran, 34,450 in Isfahan, 30,015 in Khuzestan, 18,800 in Fars, 18,748 in West Azerbaijan, 18,040 in Mazandaran, 13,355 in Qom, 9058 in Markazi (Central), 8207 in Kurdistan, 6363 in North Khorasan, 5539 in Bushehr, and 3855 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 Wednesday as 32 deaths and 2089 new cases. Furthermore, 1533 patients are in ICUs and 284 of the new cases have been hospitalized.
“Considering the fact that omicron spreads very fast and the number of cases will be very high, even if the percentage being hospitalized is less than the delta variant since the number of cases will be high, the reasons for people being hospitalized can be much higher and the death toll can also rise,” said the secretary of the National Covid-19 Task Force Scientific Committee on Wednesday, according to the state-run Mardom Salari daily.
“Apparently omicron is spreading fast, creating a new crisis, and the start of the sixth peak. Experts say a 175 percent increase in the number of daily cases in just the past three days emphasizes on this reality that we should not make any mistakes in the current circumstances because a sudden increase in the number of cases will most certainly cause problems,” according to a piece published on Wednesday by the state-run Entekhab daily.
“The number of coronavirus cases east of Ahvaz has increased five-fold in comparison to last week,” said the head of the East Ahvaz Health Center in Khuzestan province on Wednesday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
“Following the registration of omicron in Iran and some neighboring provinces, we have witnessed an increasing number of people being hospitalized. In Semnan province and areas covered by this University we have seen a 12 percent increase of people being hospitalized,” said the caretaker dean of Semnan Medical Sciences University on Wednesday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
“During the past 24 hours 95 coronavirus patients have been hospitalized and the total number stands at 406, of which 75 are in ICUs,” according to a statement released on Wednesday by the Shiraz Medical Sciences University about Fars province.
“We currently have 308 coronavirus patients hospitalized, of which 82 are in ICUs and 35 are under ventilators,” according to a statement released on Wednesday by the West Azerbaijan Covid-19 Task Force.