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COVID Daily Death Toll in Iran Stands at 134

Apadana Central — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:51:14 +0000

The coronavirus pandemic claimed 134 lives in Iran over the past 24 hours.

Providing the latest statistics on the coronavirus infection, the Health Ministry’s spokeswoman said on Tuesday that the total number of people tested positive for COVID-19 in the country has surpassed 3,049,000 after the detection of 10,216 new cases since yesterday.

Sima Sadat Lari said the pandemic has claimed 134 lives over the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 82,351.

More than 2,683,200 patients have recovered from the coronavirus infection so far or have been discharged from hospitals across Iran, Lari noted.

Among those undergoing treatment at present, 3,394 are being kept in the Intensive Care Units of medical centers because of critical health conditions, she said.

The spokeswoman also said more than 21.81 million coronavirus diagnostic tests have been carried out in Iran so far and over 4.36 million people have received the first dose of coronavirus vaccine.

The number of people infected with COVID-19 across the world has surpassed 177 million and the death toll has exceeded 3.82 million.

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Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Asians around the world appear to be experiencing more discrimination, and many say it’s happening at work.

Apadana Central — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 03:07:33 +0000

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Asians around the world appear to be experiencing more discrimination, and many say it’s happening at work.

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Asians around the world speak out on workplace discrimination

By Michelle Toh, Moss Cohen and Lauren Cook, CNN Business

Published June 7, 2021

It’s not just in the streets, and it’s not just in the United States.

In Australia, 66.4% of Asian Australian respondents to a survey last October reported experiencing workplace discrimination, which represented an increase of almost 15% in six months. The pandemic worsened dramatically in the country during that time, with coronavirus cases surging from 4,862 to 27,109 between last April and October, according to a tracker from Johns Hopkins University.

Asian Australians also suffered a disproportionate drop in working hours last spring, which “was more than twice the drop” for the rest of the population, according to researchers at the Australian National University, which conducted the study. They noted that there was “a range of possible explanations” for the disparity, including “that discrimination against Asian Australians in the workplace may have had an effect.”

In the United Kingdom, the employment rate among Chinese people dropped 4.6% from the first quarter of 2020 to the second — nearly three times more than declines experienced by other ethnic groups, according to government data.

“It is likely that the high representation of Chinese and East Asian people in hard-hit sectors like hospitality is part of it, but direct discrimination by employers may play a role too,” Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, a British coalition of labor unions, told CNN Business.

The coronavirus outbreak was first detected in China last year, leading some politicians to blame the country for the crisis. Victims and community groups say that has emboldened more people to show hostility to those perceived to be of Asian — and especially Chinese — descent.

CNN Business spoke with 38 workers in 11 countries who reported experiencing or witnessing bias in a range of ways since the start of the pandemic, from explicit harassment to subtle microaggressions.

They are of various Asian ethnicities, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Filipino.

Here are 11 of their stories.

CNN Business spoke to dozens of people around the world.

Read, watch or listen to some of their experiences of racial discrimination in the workplace.

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‘COVID-19 Death Toll in Iran up to Three Times More than Official Figures’

Apadana Central — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:33:57 +0000

Iran Corona Virus: A member of the Iranian Supreme Medical Council, Hossein Gheshlaghi, says the number of coronavirus victims in Iran is three to four times higher than the official figures announced by the country’s Ministry of Health.

The state-run Mehr news agency cited Gheshlaghi as saying that anybody can obtain the new statistics through “field reports of the medical staff.”

Furthermore, Gheshlaghi asserted that, in the official reports, the number of people who were infected by or died of COVID-19 in Iran “only seems lower” than many other countries.

However, he explained that in many cases, the medical teams declare deaths of COVID-19, but the Ministry of Health does not add the name of the victims to its official death toll.

Based on the data provided by the Ministry of Health, 32,320 people infected with COVID-19 in Iran have died as of Saturday, October 24.

Therefore, according to the Supreme Medical Council’s estimate, the current number of coronavirus victims in Iran should be more than 129,000.

Announcing different statistics on COVID-19 victims has become customary practice in Iran. There has always been speculation about the accuracy and transparency of various statistics and data concerning COVID-19 in Iran and its victims.

Previously, the Deputy Minister of Health, Iraj Harirchi, said that the number of coronavirus victims in Iran was up to 2.2 times more than the official figure.

In one case, a health expert, who was also active in fighting COVID-19, maintained that the actual number of the COVID-19 death toll in Iran was twenty times the official figure. The officials at the Ministry of Health immediately dismissed the claim as false and unfounded.

The officials of the Ministry of Health of Iran still refuse to present coronavirus statistics separately for each of the thirty-one provinces of Iran. They prefer to merely categorize the provinces’ situation as white, yellow, and red.

Currently, the Ministry of Health spokesman says 43 cities across Iran are in a “critical” situation. These cities will go under severe restriction for a week from Monday, October 26.

With the increase in the COVID-19 death toll in Iran, the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered more travel restrictions and a center to follow up the National Coronavirus Combat and Prevention Headquarters’ resolutions.

In his first meeting with the National Coronavirus Combat and Prevention Headquarters members since it formed eight months ago, Khamenei supported setting a fine for the citizens who do not respect the food country’s health protocols and regulations.

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