“We received the report of the research Department of the Ministry of health, which contains a number of important observations. According to our preliminary estimates, currently 25 million Iranians contracted the coronavirus, some 14 000 people were killed. In the last 150 days, a large number of people were hospitalized. In total, Iran hospitalization was placed more than 200 thousand people,” said Rouhani, as quoted by the radio and television IRIB.
As pointed out by the Iranian President, citing data from the Ministry of health, in the near future COVID-19 can get another 30-35 million Iranians. At the same time, the number of hospitalized patients is expected to double.
“According to the report, 500 of the 1000 are infected may not have any symptoms and don’t even notice it. About 350 cases have mild symptoms and do not require hospitalization, while 150 out of 1000 people may need hospitalization,” said Rouhani.
According to him, currently in Iran effectively used five medicines for the treatment of a coronavirus, another drug will do to local physicians in the coming weeks.
Recall that according to the latest data, the IRI is the total number of infected COVID-19 reached 271 606, deaths – 13 979. In the past 24 hours the doctors were able to identify 2166 new cases of infection with coronavirus, died 188 people. To date, the country has recovered about 235 thousand patients.
