The BBC claims to have received data showing that the number of deaths and cases of contamination is much higher than what is officially announced by Tehran.
figures sometimes three times higher than what is officially announced by the iranian authorities. According to the BBC, the government in Tehran has not revealed the extent of the epidemic of coronavirus in the country, with figures to support them. The british radio said to have received from anonymous source of highly accurate data on the number of cases and the number of deaths recorded in the hospitals.
According to the database, Iran would be in reality around 42 000 deaths in the Covid-19 between 22 January and 20 July, up from 17 190 officially (last balance-sheet of August 3), which is almost three times more. As regards the number of cases, the BBC asserts that there is no 309 437, but rather more than 451 024. Furthermore, while the first case was officially detected on 19 February in Iran, the BBC says that the first death from the coronavirus was registered on 22 January, a month earlier.
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“The iranian authorities have reported daily figures are significantly lower, despite a record of all the deaths – suggesting that they have been deliberately deleted”, advance the media the british.
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The anonymous source says he has sent the document to “shed light on the truth” and put an end to “political games” on the epidemic. The document includes the details of the admissions day-to-day in hospitals across the country, including the names, age, sex, symptoms, date and duration of periods spent in hospital, and the underlying health conditions that patients might have.
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The BBC also recalls that doubts about the real impact of the pandemic in Iran are not new. “It clearly appears that [the iranian officials] to underestimate, in any case publicly, the severity of the crisis,” said in march, Seth Jones, Centre for strategic and international studies (CSIS) in Washington, dc. “Some academics have estimates much higher than the official data, but it is necessary to be very careful”, tempered then Thierry Coville, a specialist in French from Iran to the Institute of international and strategic relations (IRIS).
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Even if the balance sheet announced corresponds to the reality, Iran remains the country in the Middle East is the most affected with the highest number of deaths caused by the epidemic.
