Information obtained from Tehran hospitals suggests that the outbreak is dramatically larger than the government says.
ISTANBUL — The coronavirus outbreak sweeping through Iran has delivered a jarring blow to the senior ranks of its government, infecting about two dozen members of parliament and at least 15 other current or former top figures, according to official reports.
With the outbreak in Iran representing one of the largest in the world, Kianoush Jahanpour, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, said Wednesday that the virus has killed 92 people across the country with nearly 3,000 people known to have been infected.But data obtained from a group of hospitals in Tehran strongly suggests that the epidemic has spread even more than the government has acknowledged.
The hospital information was collected and provided to The Washington Post by Britain-based Iranian activist Nariman Gharib, who has been critical of the government’s response to the epidemic and fears the government might be keeping details from the public.Based on the figures from Tehran, Ashleigh Tuite, an infectious-disease epidemiologist, estimated that the current outbreak in Iran has reached up to 28,000 cases.
Iran’s health system was already battered by broad U.S. economic sanctions that have curbed the country’s ability to finance humanitarian imports. International banks, fearing U.S. penalties, often d
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