Iran: COVID-19 Fatalities Surpassed 492,400

 • Pasteur Institute: We will have a very high infection rate and enter the sixth COVID-19 outbreak. The number of COVID-19 Patients and those hospitalized is doubled every 2 – 3 days and 4 – 5 days, respectively. (ILNA news agency, December 26, 2021)

• Isfahan Health Network: The COVID-19 protocols in schools are not observed satisfactorily. In some places, many students in a class are infected with COVID-19. (ISNA news agency, December 26, 2021)

• Hormozgan University: All five suspected Omicron test results sent to Tehran were confirmed positive. More people are probably infected. (IRNA news agency, December 26, 2021)

• Babol Medical University: The test result of the first person to be infected with Omicron in Babol was positive. (ISNA, December 26, 2021)

• In recent weeks, the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in South Khorasan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, North Khorasan, Semnan, Kerman, and Zanjan have exceeded the national average. (ISNA, December 26, 2021)

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Sunday, December 26, 2021, that the COVID-19 death toll in 547 cities has passed 492,400. In Tehran, the death toll has reached 115,200, Khorasan Razavi 39,780, Isfahan 33,970, East Azerbaijan 17,008, Kerman 13,247, Kurdistan 8,112, Ardabil 6,230, Zanjan 4,710, South Khorasan 4,336, and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 3,810.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
December 26, 2021