IRAN HOSPITALS RUNS OUT OF COVID PATIENT CAPACITY

  • 27/10/2020

Hospitals in many Iranian provinces are running out of capacity to handle coronavirus cases, health authorities say. The disease now killing about 300 people a day or one person every five minutes.Authorities complained of poor social distancing, and Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi said the pandemic could cause 600 daily deaths in coming weeks if Iranians failed to respect health protocols in the Middle East’s worst-affected country.A caption that ran on state television news said an Iranian died from Covid-19 every five minutes, a rate that corresponds to daily death tallies reported by the authorities of about 300 in the past 20 days.

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