Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday that 25 million Iranians have been infected with the coronavirus, a figure far higher than the country’s nearly 270,000 confirmed cases announced a day earlier.
Rouhani said there were 30 to 35 million people still at risk of contracting the virus. It was unclear how these figures were calculated and no reason was given for the discrepancy between the number of people previously announced to have been infected. Iran’s population is around 80 million.
“A report from the research department of the health ministry has assessed that 25 million Iranians have been infected with the disease so far,” Rouhani said, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.
Referring to the report, Rouhani said it also predicts that the number of hospitalizations will soon be “twice as many as we have seen in the last 150 days.” READ MORE
