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With (as of yesterday) at least 97 exported cases in the past week, Iran's COVID-19 outbreak is almost certainly many times greater than has been reported. A week ago, when there were only 3 exported cases, there were estimates of as many as 18,000 cases.
Anecdotal reports seeping out of Iran suggest the death toll is much higher than has been reported as well.Officially, however, Iran this morning has announced 205 new cases, bringing the nation's total to 595 cases and 43 deaths.
New Coronavirus Infection Statistics Released in the country;
205 new cases of coid19 in country
The Director of the Public Relations and Information Centre in the Ministry of Health said: According to laboratory results, 205 new cases of confirmed contusion to Cowid19 were confirmed yesterday before noon today, bringing the total number of infected patients to 593 in the country.
In an interview with Webb's correspondent, Dr. Kianoosh Jahanpour stated: Among the new cases, 52 were from Tehran, 21 were from Qom, 17 were from Gilan, 22 were from Golestan, 12 were from Isfahan, 18 were from Central, 12 were from Mazandaran, 8 were from Fars, 6 were from East Azerbaijan, one was from Ilam, A case was related to Southern Khorasan Eight individuals were from the Alborz Department, 4 from Semnan, five from Kurdistan Province, 6 from Qazvin, 4 from Khuzestan, one from Sistan and Baluchistan, and four from Yazd Province.
He added: Regrettably, during the past 24 hours, nine of the Coivids19 people died in the country, bringing the total number of death toll from the disease to 43.
Ministry of Health spokesperson stressed that: We strongly recommend that in addition to observing personal, social and respiratory health, limiting traffic and interurban and interurban travel is not necessary, and we urge people to stay in their homes and cities, the best and safest, so that we will not see the disease spread further./206
