Reporting by PMOI/MEK
Iran, March 17, 2021—Over 233,000 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 522 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, March 17. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 61,492 around a third of the actual figure.
The coronavirus death toll in various provinces include: 54,446 in Tehran, 15,120 in Isfahan, 13,079 in Khuzestan, 9925 in Mazandaran, 9793 in Lorestan, 8723 in West Azerbaijan, 6045 in Golestan, 5441 in Sistan & Baluchistan, 5154 in Kerman, 4684 in Kermanshah, 4022 in Kurdistan, 3850 in Semnan, and 2354 in Bushehr. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.
Due to the criminal and plundering policies adopted by regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani, a senior official of the National Covid-19 Task Force said on Tuesday that “in Iran only 60,000 vaccine doses have been injected to patients,” according to the state-run Hamshahri daily. This means only one in every 1400 people have received one dose of the vaccine, further indicating that Iran is behind nearly every other country in the world.
Rouhani placed the blame on foreigners. “We knew that no one would help us in the face of Covid-19. Even if we wanted to purchase masks from another country, they would not sell us. If we want to purchase ventilators from another country, they will refuse. If we want to purchase medical equipment, and even regarding vaccines, we knew we would face difficulties,” he claimed on Wednesday.
“We will not allow dealers and those who are benefiting from sanctions to continue with their measures,” said Health Minister Saied Namaki on Wednesday in utter hypocrisy. “However, if anyone claims they can bring vaccines better than us, if they think containers filled with vaccines are waiting behind our borders and we are not purchasing them, please, I ask them to go as our representatives and purchase the vaccines with better prices and quality, be my guest,” he added, according to state TV.
“It has been a month now that this virus is circulating across the country… We are still concerned about conditions in other provinces. The provinces neighboring Khuzestan and even our central provinces where we have discovered numerous cases of the mutated virus… what we are announcing today as the country’s Covid-19 map, designating yellow, blue, red and orange zones, these may change in the coming days, weeks and months,” Namaki continued.
Karaj, west of Tehran, #Iran
Chamran Hospital#COVID19 patients are placed in seven large halls in this hospital & the situation is reported as very dire.The lady is heard saying there is literally no control & family members are told to take care of the patients themselves. pic.twitter.com/YSp0KZK97c
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 3, 2021
“Usually for each new case identified there are three other patients that are not identified, and they are roaming in our society. The true number of new cases each day is four times the number of registered cases. Those who were not identified are those who result in the virus’ spread,” said a member of the National Covid-19 Task Force on Wednesday, according to the regime’s official IRNA news agency.
“From last week to this day the number of patients hospitalized has increased by 18 percent. The number of new coronavirus patients entering hospitals who are in dire conditions has increased. We are as of now warning about conditions in the next three or four weeks,” said the deputy chair of the Tehran Covid-19 Task Force on Wednesday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
“If in the past we had witnessed a period of lowering blood oxygen levels in a one-week period, these days this period lasts only three to five days. In other words, an individual is engaged with this virus at a much faster pace and symptoms are seen in far stronger manner. We are then forced to transfer the patient to a hospital,” said a senior health official in Tehran on Tuesday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
In Hormozgan province, the mutated strain wave is spreading with enormous speed across all areas of the province, leaving people terrified prior to Nowruz, the Iranian calendar new year.
“In the past 24 hours we have identified 41 new cases of the mutated strain and 155 new cases across the province,” said the spokesperson of the Hormozgan Medical Sciences University on Wednesday, according to IRNA. “The coming two weeks we will see a new wave and conditions will be more dangerous than last year,” said the deputy dean of this university on Wednesday, referring to a five-fold increase in the number of mutated strain cases, according to IRNA.
“The number of hospitalized Covid-19 cases across the province has doubled in comparison to last month,” said the dean of Bushehr Medical Sciences University on Wednesday, according to the Tasnim news agency, an outlet linked to the regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
“The coronavirus death rate of the mutated strain is around 50 percent higher than the initial Covid-19,” said dean of Kurdistan Medical Sciences University on Tuesday, according to ISNA.
Iran coronavirus outbreak death toll interactive map
