Over 484,000 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 Thursday afternoon local time, December 2. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 129,988, around a fourth of the actual figure.
The coronavirus death toll in various provinces include: 113,365 in Tehran, 33,210 in Isfahan, 29,390 in Khuzestan, 18,188 in West Azerbaijan, 18,070 in Fars, 17,635 in Mazandaran, 14,208 in Alborz, 13,120 in Qom, 10,570 in Golestan, 8040 in Hormozgan, 4618 in Ilam, and 4585 in Zanjan. 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 76 deaths and 3839 new cases. Furthermore, 3314 patients are in ICUs and 623 of the new cases have been hospitalized.
“Based on the numbers issued by the Health Ministry, around 1700 students in [Isfahan] province have been forced to drop out from school due to coronavirus,” said the director of Isfahan Education Department on Thursday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency. In Kashan, coronavirus is spreading fast, and the city remains registered as an orange zone. The increase in the number of new patients is concerning, according to a Thursday report wired by the Tasnim news agency, an outlet linked to the regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force.
“The number of people hospitalized each day during the past five months has been in triple digits and has yet to drop to double digits. These figures indicate that the spread of coronavirus in West Azerbaijan remains significant,” according to a statement released on Thursday by the West Azerbaijan Covid-19 Task Force.
“During the past 24 hours 400 coronavirus patients have been hospitalized in [West Province] hospitals, of which 148 are in ICUs and 33 are under ventilators,” said the dean of West Azerbaijan Medical Sciences University on Thursday, according to the Tasnim news agency.
“During the past 24 hours 131 coronavirus patients have been hospitalized. We currently have 1044 patients hospitalized, of which 144 are in ICUs,” according to a statement released Thursday by the Shiraz Medical Sciences University regarding Fars province.
“The situation in [Yazd] province is fragile. We currently have 98 patients in ICUs and 341 patients hospitalized across the province,” said the spokesperson of Yazd Medical Sciences University on Thursday, according to the Mehr news agency, an outlet linked to the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).
“The number of people hospitalized in Qazvin province stands at 226. Considering the number of new coronavirus cases quadrupling recently, we will be witnessing an increase in the number of coronavirus patients per day,” said the deputy dean of Qazvin Medical Sciences University on Thursday, according to the Tasnim news agency.
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