{"id":28617,"date":"2021-11-11T08:46:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T07:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=28617"},"modified":"2021-11-11T08:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T07:46:01","slug":"rising-death-tolls-from-covid-19-across-iran-as-provinces-report-worrying-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/11\/rising-death-tolls-from-covid-19-across-iran-as-provinces-report-worrying-statistics\/28617\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Death Tolls From COVID-19 Across Iran as Provinces Report Worrying Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"While
Coronavirus outbreak in Iran \u2014 file photo<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While the Iranian regime\u2019s official death toll from the Covid-19 virus <\/a>now stands at 127,551, according to reports that have been tallied by the Iranian opposition group, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>, the true figure is over four times higher than that at 473,700 deaths so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the 547 cities of Iran\u2019s 31 provinces, the figures are astonishing with Tehran having the highest number of deaths from the novel coronavirus at 111,165. The next highest figures were from the cities of Razavi Khorasan and Isfahan who had figures between 30 and 40 thousand. Five provinces saw between 15 and 20 thousand deaths, while a further four cities saw between 5 and 10 thousand deaths, with the city of Ardabil seeing the lowest number of deaths at 5920.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MEK<\/a> said<\/a>, \u201cThe regime\u2019s Health Ministry announced the mullahs\u2019 engineered Covid-19 numbers from the past 24 hours on Wednesday as 135 deaths and 7948 new cases. Furthermore, 3616 patients are in ICUs and 1430 of the new cases have been hospitalized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the ISNA news agency, a senior official of the National Covid-19 Task Force stated in on Wednesday that in the cities that have seen an increase in the number of positive cases and hospitalizations are being registered as red zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A statement from the Mashhad Medical Sciences University acknowledged an increase in cases of people seeking medical care for virus symptoms, as well as hospital admissions and people in ICU.\u00a0 They reported that on Tuesday, they had 202 new patients admitted to be treated for Covid-19 alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n