Reports indicate Dr. Hassan Adeli, a senior respiratory diseases specialist in #Qom and head of city’s Council of Physicians has been forced to resign over his recent comments about the spread of #Coronavirus in #Iran. 
Professor Adeli praised authorities in city of #Qom for announcing first confirmed cases of Covid19-related deaths in Qom. He said in the weeks leading to February 20, they related suspicious cases to #Coronavirus and told Health Ministry; but their warning wasn’t heeded.
Professor Adeli claimed apart from #Qom, #Coronavirus had spread in at least 15 other provinces (half of country) since early February: “Had they thought about spread of Coronavirus they’d reached the same conclusion we in Qom did, we insisted on testing; they didn’t”. #Iran
