Iran COVID-19: Death toll 19 & 139 sick. Official numbers don't match medical staff accounts

[Dennis Donovan]

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Farnaz Fassihi ✔@farnazfassihi

#Iran coronavirus:
Death toll 19 & 139 sick.
Official numbers don’t match medical staff accounts from hospitals across Iran. Saying entire hospitals & wards are overtaken by corona patients in quarantine.
Are they being tested? Shortage of kits? Real numbers not revealed?#کرونا

BBC NEWS فارسی ✔@bbcpersian

وزارت بهداشت ایران امروز تعداد مبتلایان به ویروس کرونا را ۱۳۹ نفر اعلام کرد.
بر همین اساس، تعداد مرگ بر اثر کرونا ۱۹ نفر اعلام شده?است.
در موارد جدید ابتلا، از جمله ۱۵ نفر در استان قم، ۹ نفر در استان گیلان و ۴ نفر در استان تهران ثبت شده است.
(Iran's Ministry of Health announced today the number of people infected with the coronavirus virus.
Accordingly, the death toll from coronary heart disease was reported to be nine.
New cases have been registered, including 1 in Qom, 2 in Guilan and 2 in Tehran.)

7:56 AM - Feb 26, 2020

Meanwhile, their Deputy Health Minister has it...

[Amishman]

1. I am skeptical of China's announced numbers. I'm not going to pretend to believe Iran's

China took extreme measures, has pretty good hospitals, and a culture of making sacrifices for the greater good.

Iran has lower medical care standards, a severely oppressive government, and a cultural bias towards risk taking (inshallah).

Also very worried of the outcome if this makes it into India given their issues with sanitation and crowding.

[dalton99a]

2. Now a member of parliament has it

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Iran's medical news agency openly disputing official numbers

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Farnaz Fassihi ✔@farnazfassihi

Iran’s medical news agency disputes health ministry numbers on coronavirus. Accuses officials of not reporting deaths documented in hospitals.#کرونا

Pooria Asteraky ⁦🇮🇷⁩ @pooriast

نقد کانال خبری پزشکان به آمار وزارت بهداشت به روایت روزاروز#کرونا
(Doctors' News Channel Criticism of Ministry of Health Statistics According to Rosary)



8:45 AM - Feb 26, 2020