{"id":244556,"date":"2021-08-09T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=244556"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:32:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T11:32:47","slug":"irans-covid-19-crisis-wandering-dead-a-new-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/irans-covid-19-crisis-wandering-dead-a-new-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s COVID-19 Crisis: Wandering Dead, a New Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-nurses\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-244367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-nurses.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-nurses\" width=\"1000\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iran\u2019s Covid-19 crisis is worsening. The regime\u2019s Health Ministry announced the mullahs\u2019 engineered Covid-19 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/coronavirus-in-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">statistics<\/a> on Sunday as 542 deaths, which is a new pandemic record. Meanwhile, over 352,600 people have died due to the novel Covid-19 crisis, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-coronavirus-news-352600-deaths-20210808\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the Iranian opposition.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The situation has reached a point that regime officials and state media acknowledge the severity of the Covid-19 crisis, and according to the state-run Arman daily on Sunday, \u201cThe shadow of death surrounds the people and the country.\u201d \u201cThe Covid-19 situation in Iran is worse than the announced statistics,\u201d Arman daily adds.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> Coronavirus Update<\/p>\n<p>More than 352,600 people have died of the novel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#coronavirus<\/a> in 547 cities checkered across all of Iran&#39;s 31 provinces, according to the Iranian opposition PMOI\/MEK.<\/p>\n<p>Full Report<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jRibYRCNT3\">https:\/\/t.co\/jRibYRCNT3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h7jrAxkJHO\">pic.twitter.com\/h7jrAxkJHO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1424470534356561922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cA large number of people have contracted the virus that goes unchecked, and in other words, the number of cases is more than what we are reporting,\u201d said a senior health expert on Sunday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Videos from Iran show heart-wrenching scenes from hospitals being full and patients and their families suffering. A video on social media showed a grieving mother who had recently lost his young son saying: \u201cMy boy died. I watched him suffer because there was no oxygen. I went to every room in the hospital and asked for oxygen. No one answered me.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In\u00a0Babol, northern Iran, people should inject iv-fluids in cars, if they find any. The regime refuses to help medical professionals. Many of the selfless Iranian nurses and doctors have lost their lives helping people, yet the regime refuses to financially back them or provide hospitals with the necessary equipment.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Iran\u2019s health system is collapsing. \u201cWith the consecutive Covid-19 waves, the infrastructure of the country\u2019s health system has reached the collapsing point,\u201d wrote the state-run\u00a0Mostaghel\u00a0daily on Sunday, August 8, 2021.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iran\u2019s Covid-19 crisis deepens due to the regime\u2019s inhumane Covid-19 policy, and this fact is now being confirmed and acknowledged by state media and officials.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThe relevant officials ignored this devastating [virus] by denying its existence. Officials ignored the advice of doctors and health professionals. In the very first months, officials promised the people they would defeat Covid-19. By calling the virus weak, they encouraged people to not wear masks,\u201d\u00a0Mostaghel\u00a0daily adds.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">August 8 &#8211; Mashhad, northeast <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <br \/>A hospital waiting room <br \/>The delta variant is infecting thousands as regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei banned credible vaccines and only a small fraction of the elderly have been vaccinated.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xvY01qN3ZK\">pic.twitter.com\/xvY01qN3ZK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1424446729227706369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The regime initiated its inhumane Covid-19 policy to control Iran\u2019s restive society, following the major November 2019 uprising with calls for regime change. The authorities refused to announce the existence of the virus in Iran so they could have a large election turnout during the sham parliamentary elections. While most Iranians boycotted the regime\u2019s sham elections, those few supporters of the regime became the host of the virus, and soon Covid-19 encompassed the entire country.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cAfter their political exploits several thousand deaths, infected and hospitalized, we are losing a war that we did not start at all,\u201d\u00a0Mostaghel\u00a0daily added.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThe super-critical state of coronavirus in Iranian hospitals has sounded the alarm for mass deaths of patients. Hospital corridors are filled with beds, and patients are even admitted to chairs and on the floor. Many new patients are in urgent need of hospitalization in the ICU. Still, there is not even a simple bed in the tents set up on the hospital grounds, which is why young patients die,\u201d Arman daily wrote on Sunday, quoting Mohammadreza Mahboubfar, one of the regime\u2019s health officials. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThese conditions have also saturated the capacity of cemeteries in several cities. \u2018Wandering dead\u2019 is a new phenomenon in the country these days. In Kerman, the mountaineering route has become the burial place of\u00a0a large number of\u00a0coronavirus victims,\u201d Arman daily adds.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In recent days, while the number of the Covid-19 death toll rapidly rises, some of the government officials blatantly claimed they had passed the \u201ccrisis.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWhile these days all hospitals across the country are filled with patients, and there are no empty beds for infected people, and they are admitted in hospital\u2019s yard or parking lot, and hundreds lose their lives every day, how could we speak of passing the crisis,\u201d\u00a0Mostaghel\u00a0daily wrote in this regard.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThe main culprits of this abnormal and miserable situation are the officials who have created this situation through ignorance and mismanagement. From the beginning of the pandemic, they did not understand the sensitivity of the issue and covered up the disease with despicable intentions,\u201d\u00a0Mostaghel\u00a0daily acknowledged.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iranians are dying\u00a0en\u00a0mass, while the outbreak is controlled in many countries. In many countries, over 50% of the population is vaccinated.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">During the beginning of this pandemic, the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, explicitly said that he intends to turn the Covid-19 \u201ctest\u201d into a \u201cblessing\u201d for his regime. With the systematic cover-up of the outbreak, inaction, and then banning credible Covid-19 vaccines, Khamenei showed the blessing he meant was nothing but prolonging his regime\u2019s life and avoid protests.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Khamenei is responsible for the \u201cAn unprecedented massacre\u201d in Iran, as described by Arman daily.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The recent protests in Khuzestan and dozen other cities showed the regime\u2019s inhumane Covid-19 policy would no longer work as a barrier against people\u2019s uprising.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWe are all in danger. The worrying economic pressure, along with the high number of Covid-19 deaths, and the inefficiency of decision-making institutions, will eventually bring the distressed people to a point where they will have nothing to lose. This is a dangerous process that has been warned about before,\u201d the\u00a0Mostaghel\u00a0daily warned regime officials on Saturday, August 7.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&rsquo;s Covid-19 crisis is worsening. The regime&rsquo;s Health Ministry announced the mullahs&rsquo; engineered Covid-19 statistics on Sunday as 542 deaths, which is a new pandemic record. 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