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Iran\u2019s opposition: Coronavirus death toll has now surpassed 40,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran\u2019s<\/a> opposition movement, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a> announced on Saturday, that the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) death toll in Iran is over 40,200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, please remember that this is a minimum number because the regime is intimidating medical professionals and families into reporting a false cause of death, so not everyone feels comfortable coming forward to the MEK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the reports obtained by Iran\u2019s opposition, the MEK, situation is set to get even worse as more people have contracted the coronavirus recently because of the regime\u2019s ridiculous decision to send people back to work, amid the pandemic, in order to avoid too many people being to feed their families. Instead, of providing food or money to poor people in desperate times, the regime essentially sent a number of them to their deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the Health ministry representative was forced to admit that the number of new patients in one day had doubled to 1,680 from 802 on Monday. While Health Minister Saeid Namaki admitted that there is an upward trend in the number of infections and deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president of Khuzestan University of Medical Sciences, Farhad Abol-Nejadian, said that this is directly linked to \u201cthe decrease in social distancing since April 11\u201d, while a deputy from the same university, Seyed Mahmood Alavi, said that infections rates soared in Ramshir because an infected person was allowed to travel there from Ahvaz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alireza Zali, head of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce (NCCT), explained that there is \u201cno change in the situation\u201d and Tehran is \u201ca contaminated city\u201d, while Seyed Abbas Mousavi, the president of the University of Medical Sciences in Mazandaran, said none of the cities in Mazandaran has seen a significant drop in the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Iran\u2019s opposition, the deputy of the University of Medical Sciences in Zahedan said that the country is seeing the \u201csecond wave of COVID-19 outbreak\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet still, regime\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani has attempted to justify the back-to-work order and the regime\u2019s low recording of infections and deaths with his usual lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the state-run Jahan-e Sanat daily wrote: \u201cExperts and specialists inside and outside the government believe that the President (Rouhani) is optimistic about how the Coronavirus is behaving \u2026 This cover-up has resulted in, people considering the epicentres of the outbreak as white and low-risk zones, and not taking the disease seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"