But the number of known cases in relation to deaths would bring the death rate from the virus in Iran to more than 7%, much higher than in other countries. Experts from the World Health Organization and concern that Iran is underestimating the number of cases affecting that lately.
However, even though Iran is sending spray trucks and fumigators to the streets, the government is still looking to minimize the spread of the virus.
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“During those 10 days when we communicated about the coronavirus in the country, more than 480 people in our country died in traffic accidents, but no one saw them,” Jahanpour said.
The virus has inflamed more than 85,000 people and caused more than 2,900 deaths since its inception in China. Iran, with 43 dead, has the highest number of deaths in China’s outdoor world. Of the 730 cases shown worldwide in the Middle East, most date back to the Islamic Republic.
Saturday’s new death toll of 593 cases showed that it represents a jump of 205 cases, 52% more than the 388 reported the previous day. Jahanpour warned that there would be giant increases in the number of cases shown, as Iran now has 15 virus laboratories.
On Friday night, a Persian BBC report bringing resources within Iran’s medical network killed at least 210 people. .
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Jahanpour, however, questioned the report for political motivations, confusing other reasons for death with coronavirus and depending on resources without Iranian coronavirus testing laboratories.
“The Queen’s media, BBC Persian, cares about keeping the Saudi and Albanian networks in the ‘competition of lies,'” she said. Albania is home to the Iranian exile organization Mujahedeen-e-Khalq.
However, at the same press conference, Jahanpour warned that “tens of thousands” may request tests for coronavirus. He also encouraged others to continue mass gatherings, including funerals of those who died from the virus. Authorities then banned the público. de visiting patients in hospitals in the country, state television reported.
“The safest position is our homes and our cities,” he said. “We want our visits, even to attend the funeral, and of course, the mourners will feel guilty if they notice that their rite explains the spread of the disease. “”
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However, concerns continue to grow, as online videos showed a mob setting on a chimney in the yard of an overnight medical clinic in the southern city of Bandar Abbas. Semi-professional media reported that the accumulated ones mistakenly believed that the clinic housed others with the new coronavirus.
Earlier on Saturday, Bahrain threatened legal action against travelers from Iran who had been screened for the new coronavirus, and also banned public gatherings for two weeks.
The small island country off the coast of Saudi Arabia has been severely affected by some cases and has closed some flights to prevent the spread of the virus.
All instances in Bahrain are connected to Iran, where even senior officials have the virus.
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that another 2292 people had arrived in the kingdom from Iran before the outbreak was announced. Of these, only “310 citizens” called the government and tested themselves, the ministry said, raising the option that unsamined persons could simply be arrested and charged if denied.
The ministry “said the required legal proceedings would be initiated against those who returned from Iran in February and did not call to make an appointment for testing,” the internal ministry said. the duty of Americans and society as a whole.
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Bahrain, ruled by Sunnis, has embarked on a years-long offensive against dissent in the kingdom of the island since the 2011 Arab Spring protests, in which the Shia population called for greater political freedoms. the Shiite force in the Middle East.
Qatar announced on Saturday its first case of coronavirus, a Qatari citizen who has in the past participated in an evacuation flight from Iran. Sunday.
Also on Saturday, Saudi Arabia announced that it would prohibit citizens of the Gulf Cooperation Council from accessing Islam’s holiest sites in Mecca and Medina for considerations about the spread of the virus. The GCC is an organization of six nations: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Saudi Arabia closed the holy sites to foreign pilgrims on Thursday due to the coronavirus, which interrupted thousands of Muslims already heading to the kingdom and would potentially affect plans later this year for millions more before the fasting month of Ramadaan and the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
This is an unprecedented initiative, which was not even taken during the 1918 flu epidemic that killed tens of millions of people worldwide.
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Meanwhile, small oil-rich Kuwait has just told its citizens not to go anywhere abroad.