Over 503,800 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 Tuesday afternoon local time, February 8. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 133,048, around a fourth of the actual figure.
The coronavirus death toll in various provinces include: 117,655 in Tehran, 40,505 in Razavi Khorasan, 34,960 in Isfahan, 30,365 in Khuzestan, 19,150 in Fars, 18,993 in West Azerbaijan, 18,250 in Mazandaran, 17,420 in Gilan, 14,668 in Alborz, 13,885 in Sistan & Baluchistan, 13,592 in Kerman, 9424 in Kermanshah, 9208 in Markazi (Central), 8375 in Hormozgan, 8368 in Yazd, 6640 in Semnan, 6483 in North Khorasan, 6435 in Ardabil, 5944 in Qazvin, and 3829 in Kohgiluyeh & Boyer Ahmad. 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 Tuesday as 38,757 new cases and 114 deaths. Furthermore, 2724 patients are in ICUs and 2744 of the new cases have been hospitalized.
“The number of people seeking initial medical care in hospitals and medical centers is extremely high. We are forecasting a high number of cases and the stats regarding hospitalization and deaths reaching the numbers of previous peaks. In the week ahead and the week afterwards, the number of new cases will be so high that we will surpass the peak at a very fast pace,” said Amir Sadri, director of the Tehran Medical Apparatus Public Relations Office on Tuesday, according to the state-run Shafaqna news agency.
“We are facing a shortage of personnel in most of our branches. The number of medical staff contracting the virus is rising exponentially. In the next one or two months we will be witnessing very difficult days. We have yet to reach the peak of this wave,” said the deputy director of Tehran’s Baharlu Hospital on Monday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
“The number of people being hospitalized is on the rise and we currently have 1010 patients hospitalized. We currently have 400 people being hospitalized per day, doubling the numbers of ten days ago. We currently have 212 patients in ICUs,” according to a statement released on Tuesday by the Mashhad Medical Sciences University regarding Razavi Khorasan province.
“The numbers of people seeking initial medical care and those being hospitalized have increased by 100 percent,” said the head of Mashhad’s Hasheminezhad Hospital on Tuesday, according to the regime’s official IRIB news agency.
“The number of new Covid cases per day in West Azerbaijan has increased by more than 18-fold,” said the caretaker dean of West Azerbaijan Medical Sciences University on Tuesday, according to the Mehr news agency, an outlet linked to the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).
The number of patients during the past week has increased by five-fold in comparison to the week prior to that. During the past 24 hours 936 people in Semnan province have tested positive, according to a Tuesday report wired by the IRIB news agency.
“Markazi (Central) province, like other parts of the country, is facing a shortage in ICU beds for children. At the time being all ICU beds for children in Markazi province are occupied,” said deputy dean of Arak Medical Sciences University on Tuesday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
Head of Abuzar Hospital in the city of Ahvaz reported an increasing number of omicron cases among children under the age of two. “Providing medical care to this large number of new cases may be beyond the capacity of our medical personnel. In one or two weeks the number of new cases in Khuzestan will double,” this official added, according to the semi-official ILNA news agency.
“350 nurses have contracted Covid-19. We need more ICU beds.”
From this day forward the ICU beds of our hospitals will be providing exclusive care for coronavirus patients,” according to a statement released on Tuesday by the Ahvaz Medical Sciences University.
“481 patients are hospitalized, of which 103 are in ICUs. During the past 24 hours 103 patients were hospitalized,” said the deputy dean of Yazd Medical Sciences University on Tuesday, according to the Mehr news agency.
“In the coming ten days we may reach the point of having 1000 patients hospitalized. This is a grave threat. Twenty percent of those hospitalized are children,” said the spokesperson of the Kermanshah Covid-19 Task Force on Tuesday, according to the Fars news agency, an outlet linked to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
