In Iran, 'one person dies every 10 minutes' due to coronavirus infection

While Iran has become one of most hard-hit countries of dely coronavirus outside China, an Iranian health official reportedly said on March 19 that COVID-19 kills one person in every ten minutes in Islamic Republic and every hour, at least 50 people get infected with pathogen. This revelation was tweeted by Dr Kianush Jahanpur as country’s death toll surpasses 1,200 and has w infected at least 18,400 people. pandemic has disrupted many lives since it was originated in December 2019 and has claimed over 10,000 lives, worldwide, with more than 245,749 confirmed cases.

Jahanpur said, “Based on our information, every 10 minutes one person dies from coronavirus and some 50 people become infected with virus every hour in Iran.”

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Rouhani defends government

Meanwhile, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani defended its government’s efforts to stem spre of fatal virus and said that despite t anuncing a lockdown, government as “intervened significantly” and stopped disease from spreing. Rouhani said that “some ask why government isn’t intervening” but he furr ds, “I think we have intervened significantly”. Furr lauding his government, Iranian President said that “great things” have been done in order to contain easily spre COVID-19. He also assured that country will “get past hard days”, however, despite or preventive measures, Iran is yet to impose any lockdown while virus has spre to all its 31 provinces. 

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While Jahanpur said that one person dies every minute, Iran still reportedly mand to cure a 103-year-old woman of COVID-19 infection despite significant evidence that elderly people are most vulnerable to pathogen. unnamed woman h been hospitalised in central city of Semnan for at least seven days, and reportedly he of hospital, Navid Danayi has said that she was “discharged after making a complete recovery”. 

103-year-old woman was also second elderly patient who has been fully cured of disease. While to total coronavirus cases in Iran have reached over 18,000 as of March 20, a 91-year-old man from Kerman, in souast of Iran also survived after contracting COVID-19.

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