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According to information from the country's crisis team, the number of corona deaths in Iran is more than twice as high as stated by the Ministry of Health. "The official statistics have to be multiplied by 2.5 to get the real numbers,"
According to information from the country's crisis team, the number of corona deaths in Iran is more than twice as high as stated by the Ministry of Health. "The official statistics have to be multiplied by 2.5 to get the real numbers,"
said Massud Mardani, a member of the Iranian Corona crisis team, of the Isna news agency on Tuesday. According to this calculation, the number of corona deaths would be more than 840 per day - and not 337 as stated by the Ministry of Health.
Other health experts in Iran also share Mardani's assessment. They assume that the officially stated number of deaths is still relatively low because there are too few test options. Experts are therefore calling for an immediate curfew in large cities,
especially in the capital Tehran with its 13 million inhabitants. Otherwise there could be critical bottlenecks in medical care and a shortage of hospital beds. But President Hassan Ruhani is still against it due to economic considerations.
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