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| Iran has 500,000 people infected with coronavirus |
| 2020-04-07 |
| [JPost] - A member of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce for the Islamic Republic of Iran revealed on Monday that half a million people in the country suffer from the deadly virus. Hamid Souri, the taskforce member, told Islamic Republic's news agency, IRNA, that many patients afflicted with the coronavirus have not been detected, according to an article from Radio Farda, the Iranian branch of the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which reported on the IRNA news item. Iran's Ministry of Health claims that 60,500 Iranians are currently infected. Souris termed the situation "worrisome," and said there has been a spike in the virus across the provinces of Tehran, Khorasan Razavi, West Azarbaijan, Bushehr, Khuzestan, and Kermanshah. ...The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday that death rate in Iran is "four to five times higher than the regime admitted then," the report said. "The current figures are currently officially 55,743 sufferers and 3,452 dead. The current death toll is apparently much higher. On Sunday, it was 12,380, according to Western security sources." ...Iran is the epicenter of the Middle East coronavirus crisis. The clerical regime has refused to accept humanitarian aid from the US government. Zip it, Herb. ...On Monday,the US State Department released an "Iran's Sanctions Relief Scam" fact sheet. According to the document, "In 2018, an Iranian 'humanitarian' company was sanctioned by the United States for masking payments that provided hundreds of millions of dollars to Hezbollah and Hamas through the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] IRGC’s Qods Force." "Iran’s slick foreign influence campaign to obtain sanctions relief is not intended for the relief or health of the Iranian people but to raise funds for its terror operations," wrote the State Department. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 I wish journalists wouldn't use the word 'epicenter' when they mean 'center' or 'locus'. Of course, I'd also like it if beer was free. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2020-04-07 08:51 |
| #1 0.6% |
| Posted by: 3dc 2020-04-07 06:29 |