“As of last night, about 50 people have died.”
Emergency first responders wearing protective masks stand along a street in the Iranian capital Tehran on February 24, 2020. – Iran’s government vowed on February 24 to be transparent after being accused of covering up the deadliest coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak outside China as it dismissed claims the toll could be as high as 50.
The government announced Iran’s coronavirus death toll had jumped by four to 12 — by far the highest outside China — as its neighbours closed their borders and imposed strict quarantine measures. Shoaib, a 24-year-old pharmacy employee, said the shop was running out of stocks as it had gone from selling 500 face masks a day to 10,000.
Authorities have ordered the closure of schools, universities and other educational centres across the country as a “preventive measure”.A video has gone viral of young men greeting each other by tapping their feet together to avoid infection, instead of shaking hands or the increasingly common fist-bump.“We will announce any figures on the number of deaths throughout the country. We pledge to be transparent about the reporting of figures,” spokesman Ali Rabiei said.
After reporting two deaths in Qom, Iran has yet to give a breakdown of where the other patients died.The others are in Tehran with 13 infections, Gilan with six, Markazi with four, Isfahan with two and one each for Hamedan and Mazandaran.
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