Days 138-140 - #COVID19 in Iran
Troubling days and an alarming thread
Picking up from three days ago:
Troubling days and an alarming thread
Picking up from three days ago:
Since I did not find anyone who would verify and report a balanced view of COVID in Iran beyond political tensions and affiliations, ended up doing it myself. Hope doing OK job.
[Current Outlook]
Very grim. 25 provinces out of 31 in a critical condition. Official daily deaths at record high. Patients in critical condition risen from 2500 to 3000. The only good news we had was that Khuzestan is calmer now, which at least partly true but not sure how much
Very grim. 25 provinces out of 31 in a critical condition. Official daily deaths at record high. Patients in critical condition risen from 2500 to 3000. The only good news we had was that Khuzestan is calmer now, which at least partly true but not sure how much
Tehran is in dire situations with bed shortages, etc. Number of daily adimissions were down to <200. Now? Recrd level 890.
According to Dr. Zali, head of Tehran COVID Taskforce, in Tehran:
R ≈ 7-8 (from 2-3)
According to Dr. Zali, head of Tehran COVID Taskforce, in Tehran:
R ≈ 7-8 (from 2-3)
Officials in Tehran finally agreed to enforcing some level of restriction for a week. Dr Zali is saying a week is nothing, this needs to be enforced for a prolonged span of time.
Head of Iran's Medical Council in a letter to the President has warned that the number of ICU beds are not enough and meaningful restrictions need to come back to control the second wave.
Qom (1.2M), the original epicentre, has been an important gauge and those who have been reading my threads remember number of hospitalised cases reached <100. Now it is 215 and according to the health officials rate of admissions is x3-5.
#IMPORTANT A medical official in Tehran reports that they have started to see an increasing number of reinfections: patients already infected in March and now come back with different and usually more severe symptoms.
Authorities in the province of Alborz (2.7M) in the vicinity of Tehran describe the situation in this province as worrying and alarming where ICU bed shortage exists yet the trend is still rising.
Overall reports indicate in many places shortage of beds and increasingly shortage of staff due to being worn out or infected while due to financial constraints, these hospitals were understaffed.
Just in one hospital in Tehran 172 members of staff were down with COVID.
Meanwhile we have reports that due to hospitalising COVID patients and reduced elective surgeries, income of the hospitals have reduced greatly and many are in the verge of bankrupcy.
Similarly, a document shared by a whistleblower in Khuzestan province shows that hospitals were inclined not to admit COVID patients because of the negative financial impacts.
Gilan (2.5M), a province severely affected during the 1st wave, shows an increasing trend of hospitalisations: 310 patients, 60 of whom admitted in the last 24 hours.
And before I finish with some non-COVID news, a funny COVID related:
PhD admission exams were meant to take place in March, due to COVID they are delayed. But apparently, the team responsible for exam questions still locked up not to share the questions!
PhD admission exams were meant to take place in March, due to COVID they are delayed. But apparently, the team responsible for exam questions still locked up not to share the questions!
