Why is Iran's reported mortality rate for coronavirus higher than in other countries? – NBCNews.com, NBC News
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WASHINGTON – Iran has the highest reported number of deaths from the coronavirus outside China, raising questions about how the government is handling the public health crisis and whether the often secretive regime has been fully transparent about the extent of the outbreak.
Iran’s health ministry spokesman Kianoosh Jahanpour said on Tuesday that 25 Iranians have died out of a total of 658 positive cases. But Iran’s state news agency later said one person infected with coronavirus had died in the city of Saveh, bringing the death toll to 77.
Apart from China, where the virus was first detected in December, Iran has recorded the most deaths from the coronavirus . There have been 2, deaths in China, out of a total number of , confirmed cases.
But Iran reported mortality rate for the illness – about percent – surpasses the rate for other countries by a dramatic margin. At the epicenter of the outbreak in Hubei province in China, the reported mortality rate is estimated at around 2 percent. In South Korea, patients have died from the virus out of 977 cases, for a reported mortality rate of about 1 percent .
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