Iran - Covid-19: 397,801 cases; 22,913 deaths - August BBC investigation says 451,025 cases, 42,000 deaths

[Gert van der Hoek]

febr 19, 2020


State-run ISNA news agency is reporting that Iranian health officials have confirmed two coronavirus cases within the country.

The first brush with the virus the country has faced since the novel virus was discovered in Wuhan, China in late December.“[Within] the last two days, some suspected cases of the new coronavirus were found,” ISNA quoted the state's Health Ministry as saying.

[sharon sanders]

State news agency...

The Ministry of Health announced

Two Corona positive specimens in Iran in preliminary test results

The head of the Ministry of Health's Public Relations and Information Center said two tests were suspected to be positive for the new coronavirus and said two tests had been positive in two cases. Subsequent tests are underway to check the certainty of the matter and its results will be made public as soon as it is ready.

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"Two Iranians, who tested positive earlier today for new coronavirus, died of respiratory illness," the official told Mehr. Qom is located 140 km (87 miles) south of Tehran, and is home to over a million people.

https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Two-Iranians-die-of-coronavirus-in-Qom-Iran-618113

[Treyfish]

BREAKING - Head of Iranian Ministry of Health's Public Relations and Information Center Kianush Jahanpur confirms BOTH patients die after being diagnosed with #COVID19 coronavirus in #Qomhttps://twitter.com/drjahanpur/statu...56339185356801


"Both cases of
coronary virus infection in Qom die" Qom University of Medical Sciences chief reported the deaths of two cases of positive coronary heart disease in Qom.

According to Mehr, Mohammad Reza Ghadir at Qom University of Medical Sciences announced that he had spread respiratory diseases in the city for the past four days: "During this time two people died in one of Qom's hospitals due to respiratory disease, which today is the primary test. "The two men were positive about coronary artery disease."

Announcing that the answer to the second genetic test has yet to..https://www.dw.com/fa-ir/%D8%A2%D8%A...%B8/a-52428252

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.irna.ir/news/83681565/%D...AF%D9%86%D8%AF

Two people died due to coronation in Qom

TEHRAN - IRNA - Adviser to the Minister of Health and Medical Education has announced the death of two people due to coronation in Qom.

Ali Reza Wahabzadeh told IRNA on Wednesday: Both men were identified in Qom today and both were aged.

"Both died because of corona," he said.

One of the two died in Qom was a chemical veteran, Wahhab Zadeh said.

Kianoush Jahanpour, head of the Ministry of Health's Public Relations and Information Center, also wrote in his Twitter account: "Following the peak of acute respiratory illnesses in Qom in recent days, two cases have been reported positive for coronavirus in the initial tests, unfortunately both The patient died in ICU due to old age and immune deficiency.

According to IRNA, Kianoush Jahanpour, head of the Ministry of Public Relations and Information Center of the Ministry of Health today, reported two cases of coronavirus infection in Qom, saying: "Initial testing of samples sent from suspected new coronavirus was positive in two cases." Has been reported.

Mohammad Mehdi Goya, head of the Ministry of Health's Center for Infectious Diseases, told IRNA today: "These two cases are from Qom." We are reviewing and completing information on these two definitive cases of coronary heart disease in Qom.

The coronavirus, which began in late December last year in the city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, has spread to nine other countries in addition to the provinces of China.

The coronavirus in China has so far killed 4,400 people. (??? This is not what China says. They are reporting approximately 2,004 deaths.link h/t a twitter follower)

[Treyfish]

Says 25 in quarantine https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51563039

[sharon sanders]

EHRAN - IRNA - Ali Larijani, Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, on Wednesday evening by phone with the Minister of Health and Medical Education received the latest reports and information on two definitive cases of coronary heart disease in Qom, taking the necessary measures. Urgent preventive and health measures were emphasized in this regard.

During a separate phone call to the Minister of Education, Larijani also provided parents and students with the necessary recommendations to safeguard the school environment against the spread of the coronavirus and provide necessary information, according to the House of Nations website.
The Speaker of the Majlis, also in another phone call with Bahram Governor General Qom, emphasized the urgent need to convene a Security Council meeting and to take preventive measures as soon as possible, especially by securing public assemblies, schools and universities in Qom province for coronary heart disease.

Schools and higher education centers are closed tomorrow (Thursday) to check the status of Corona in Qom.

https://www.irna.ir/news/83681736/%D...A7%D9%86%D9%87

[Gert van der Hoek]

Via Twitter, unconfirmed, unknown source:

Head of Qom University of Medical Sciences: Five people with acute respiratory disease in Qom, who have confirmed positive coronavirus test, died

Tehran City Council Health Committee Chairman: In our proposed guidelines, installation of disinfectants at each subway and bus station is considered and at the end of each shift public transport facilities such as buses and subways should be washed and disinfected.

[Gert van der Hoek]

febr 20, 2020

Head of Qom University of Medical Sciences: Results of second test confirm two Qum patients definitely died

Rabiei: Corona Prevention and Counterterrorism Staff is formed at the Ministry of Health

[Gert van der Hoek]

The head of the Ministry of Public Relations and Information Center announced:

Confirmation of three new cases of coronavirus

The head of the Ministry of Public Relations and Information Center of the Ministry of Health on the latest situation of Chronic 19 (Coronavirus) in the country said: Based on laboratory evidence, three patients hospitalized in Qom and Arak have been confirmed to have Chronic 19 and the patients are currently in hospital under Are in care.

Dr. Kianoush Jahanpour, speaking to a Webda reporter, said: As of this morning, tests revealed two new cases in Qom and one in Arak to Corona 19, all three patients had Iranian citizenship and one in Arak. He is also a resident of Qom and one of our physician associates. Including these cases, the number of 19 confirmed choroidal infections in the country reaches five.

[Gert van der Hoek]

Two patients with the new coronavirus died in Qom, said the head of the Ministry of Public Relations and Information Center .

The Vbda, doctor K Jahanpour, the details of getting two people to the new corona virus in Qom while informing your Twitter account, said: Picnic followed by acute respiratory diseases in recent days in Qom, two trials Early coronavirus positive reports reported that unfortunately both patients died in ICU due to age and immune deficiency.

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscr...deaths/1739643

20 February 2020 Last Updated at 6:02 pm | Source: PTI
Iran announces 3 new cases of coronavirus after 2 deaths

Tehran, Feb 20 (AP) Iran said on Thursday that three more people have been infected with the new coronavirus that originated in central China, following an announcement the day before that two people had died of the illness caused by the virus in the Iranian city of Qom.

All schools and universities, including religious Shiite seminaries, were shut down in the holy city of Qom, according to the official IRNA news agency. Other news reports said Iran had recently evacuated 60 Iranian students from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicentre of the epidemic...

...An official in Iran''s health ministry, Kiyanoush Jahanpour, said on his twitter account that the number of confirmed cases of the virus in Iran was five, including the two elderly Iranian citizens who died on Wednesday in Qom.

IRNA reported that the three new cases are all Iranians residing in Qom, with one of the infected having visited the city of Arak.

Mohammad Mahdi Gouya, Iran''s deputy health minister, said they did not appear to have had any contact with Chinese nationals.

Iranian authorities were now investigating the origin of the disease, and its possible link with religious pilgrims from Pakistan or other countries...

[Gert van der Hoek]

Iran International reports that a 35-year-old woman also died of corona disease at Imam Reza Hospital in Qom and the total number of victims has so far reached 9.

febr 20 2020

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febr 20 2020

Iran International English

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According to information received, on Thursday, by
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, a 35-year-old woman has died from the #coronavirus in the Imam Reza hospital in Qom in #Iran. This brings the total of death, in Iran, from the virus, to nine

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Iran confirms three more coronavirus cases

Authorities shut down schools in city of Qom after three new cases detected in Iran.

Tehran, Iran - Authorities in Iran have confirmed three new cases of the coronavirus, a day after two people died from the infection in the city of Qom.

Alireza Vahabzadeh, an adviser to Iran's health minister, said on Wednesday a total of five cases have been confirmed in Iran so far.

"The three new cases from today include two in Qom and one in Araq in central Iran. The case in Araq is a doctor," he told Al Jazeera. "It remains unclear where the virus in Iran has come."
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/iran-confirms-coronavirus-cases-200220125104907.html