Another totalitarian dictatorship displaying total failure in handling this epidemic! Let's hope this theocratic regime nor the Communist Party of China will survive this virus!
"Weeks ago, Iranian health officials said COVID-19 was no match for their public health system and dismissed quarantines as “archaic.” Now, their country has the most COVID-19 deaths outside of China.
A top government priority? Silencing medical workers.
They’ve been warned not to disclose information about shortages or coronavirus patients and deaths. Some are risking their lives to reveal “what happens when a secretive state with limited resources tries to play down an outbreak,” the New York Times reports.
People hoarding face masks risk the death penalty. And the Health Ministry has proposed sending 300,000 soldiers door-to-door to sanitize houses.
On Tuesday, Iran officially acknowledged as many as 77 deaths from the virus and at least 2,300 cases, but the case count is thought to be much higher."
Inside Iran’s Attempts to Suppress Virus—and Truth | Global Health NOW: Weeks ago, Iranian health officials said COVID-19 was no match for their public health system and dismissed quarantines as “archaic.” Now, their country has the most COVID-19 deaths outside of China.
A top government priority? Silencing medical workers.
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