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© Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Iran news agency: Death toll from new virus in Qom is at 50
By AYA BATRAWY DUBAI, United Arab Emirates©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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nandakandamanda
50 deaths already is an outrageously high figure, even for a whole country, let alone a single city. So how many are infected then?
Something is not right here.
darknuts
Probably because they don't have access to quality medical equipment and facilities due to sanctions.
OssanAmerica
Another cluster..Iran....South Korea...Italy,,,,weird
nandakandamanda
Hmmm... It must be 50 confirmed cases in Qom, (not deaths) and the parliamentarian just got it wrong.
Jimizo
Hard to find accuracy here.
I read the figure of 50 deaths has been disputed but the number infected has also been regarded as as an underestimation.
tamanegi
Virus may have mutated?
davidnorell
Doctors' have a math for how many are actually infected. X times 50 illnesses Equals, so 50 death times 50 illnesses is 2,500 illnesses so far for the Republic of Iran.
nandakandamanda
But J Yahoo has meanwhile been updating and reporting an official announcement of 12 deaths in Iran as of today.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/pickup/6352144
nandakandamanda
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Live map giving 61 confirmed cases in Iran.
Ricky Kaminski13
50 dead? Iran? Ossian for real this is getting weirder by the day. The mind boggles. Iran of all places...
Alex Einz
amazingly how japan total infection rate excl boat is 159 only.... well done Abe !!!
gokai_wo_maneku
The mortality rate for the new corona virus is 2%, so 50 is 2% of what? Then you now the total. That's 2,500 cases so far.
John McCartney
The lack of details is more staggering than the news! Without the details I cannot even make an educated guess on if they just botched care for these people or if its the virus itself that needs to be blamed. However, considering all the information I have and trust so far, I would lean toward them botching it, something like cramming a bunch of sick old people together in a crowded hospital wing. ie hasty and improper quarantine even worse than the Diamond Princess.
starpunk
Since when does the media in a totalitarian nation ever tell the truth?
JCosplay
Well hopefully, it’s just 50 cases, not 50 deaths. And yeah, that wouldn’t make much sense, there being only 47 cases, and all of a sudden 50 deaths. Even with a totalitarian government, something is very wrong with those figures.
JCosplay
Because also, do you guys remember the protests a month or so ago? You know that the Iranian government wouldn’t want a repeat of that, due to covering up something as serious as the coronavirus. And don’t think that it wouldn’t happen, oh no, it would totally happen!
Yubaru
Why would this guy be angry or scolding people at a WHO press conference? Were the people he was talking to behaving badly? Is he scolding the Iranians?
Mr Kipling
There are a lot of Chinese construction and engineering projects in Iran.