Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 450 Cities Surpasses 113,500

• Alireza Zali, head of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce (NCCT) in Tehran: Yesterday was the worst day of the Coronavirus crisis in Tehran. We had the highest number of hospitalizations (1,038 patients) and the highest death toll since the beginning. (ISNA, September 30, 2020)
• Deputy Chief of NCCT in Tehran: We have 4,300 patients in Tehran; 1,200 are in ICU. (State TV, October 1, 2020)
• Governor of Tabriz: The number of daily deaths in Tabriz has passed 30, while at the beginning of the year, it was less than 10. (Asr-e Iran daily, September 30, 2020)
• West Azerbaijan University of Medical Sciences: Nineteen patients died in the past 24 hours due to Coronavirus. One hundred seventy-seven patients are in ICU 43 are connected to ventilators. (IRNA, September 30, 2020)
• Director of Education for Khorasan Razavi Province: 244 of our colleagues in schools and 232 students have been infected with Coronavirus, 21 colleagues and five students have died. (ISNA, September 30, 2020)

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Thursday, October 1, 2020, that the number of Coronavirus fatalities in 450 cities exceeded 113,500. The number of victims in Khorasan Razavi is 8,429, Khuzestan 7,383, Isfahan 5,614, Mazandaran 5,392, Lorestan 5,018, Gilan 4,581, East Azerbaijan 3,838, Golestan 3,331, Fars 3,056, Hamedan 3,015, West Azerbaijan 2,967, Kurdistan 2,096, North Khorasan 2,009, Kerman 1,753, Hormozgan 1,540, Yazd 1,521, Qazvin 1,054, Zanjan 1,068, Ilam 948, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad 812, and South Khorasan 799.

In Tehran, Alireza Zali, head of NCCT, told ISNA, on Wednesday, “Yesterday was the worst day during the Coronavirus crisis in Tehran. The highest mortality rate in Tehran Province since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak occurred yesterday. The highest mortality rate in Tehran was on March 18, 2020. The next peak was on March 23, 2020, and the next time we experienced an increase in mortality was on July 23rd and 25th. Unfortunately, yesterday’s death toll was higher than all previous mortality peaks. In the past 24 hours, 870 new (Coronavirus) patients have been admitted to ordinary wards, and 168 patients to ICUs. In the past 48 hours, the number of new hospitalizations has approached 1,000.”

Nader Tavakoli, Tehran’s deputy chief of NCCT, told the State TV today, “We currently have over 4,300 patients who are essentially in critical condition; about 1,200 of them are in ICUs. Today, Iran University of Medical Sciences has admitted some 46 children. We even have infants infected with the Coronavirus.”

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
October 1, 2020