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The number of other people who died from COVID-19 in Iran is almost 3 times the official figure, according to a BBC poll.
The number of government infections is also well below its public figure, according to internal filtered numbers sent to the BBC Persian service.
Records mean that nearly 42,000 others in Iran were killed by COVID-19 as of July 20. On that day, the public figure of the Ministry of Health 14,405.
Similarly, the cumulative infection count 451,024 that day, according to filtered figures, compared to a public count of 278,827.
The BBC got the figures from an anonymous source. The network stated that the recordings were very detailed and corresponded to the recordings it had independently noticed.
Leaked files also show that the first coronavirus death in the country occurred on 22 January, almost a month earlier than the government had admitted in the past, the BBC reported.
Several countries, Brazil and the United States, also learned that their first coronavirus deaths occurred earlier than expected.
In the United States, two who died in early February were later known to have died of COVID-19, according to Bloomberg, raising the date of COVID-19’s first death to two weeks.
Iran is one of the first coronavirus hot spots at the start of the pandemic and remains the most affected country in the Middle East, even according to the lowest public figures.
There have long been suspicions about the figures of the Iranian coronavirus. In February, when the virus was known to spread to only a few countries, a Persian BBC report said the deaths were hidden.
Citing resources in Iran’s hospital system, the BBC said 210 others had been killed by the virus, in addition to the public figure of 34.
At the time, Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi denied that there had been a cover-up.
Iran has experienced a primary resurgence of the virus since it began to ease blocking restrictions in mid-April. Cases continued to decline until May 2, but temporarily began to rise again.
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