Daily Mail: Footage emerges claiming to show coronavirus body bags lined up in Iranian hospital - as country's first vice president 'is infected', illness affects 8% of MPs and 54,000 prisoners are released in bid to stop disease spreading
* The footage was reportedly recorded by medical personnel in a hospital
* It shows lines of seemingly full body bags lining the floors of the hospital
* Comes amid accusations regime is concealing the true extent of the outbreak
* Death toll reached 92, the highest outside of China, with 2,922 infected
* One of those infected is said to be the First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri
* Ali Khamenei said COVID-19 isn't 'that big of a deal' despite one of his most trusted advisers dying and eight percent of his parliament infected
Footage claiming to show rows of body bags filled with people killed by the coronavirus in Iran has been shared online, amid fears the country is hiding the true extent of the disease outbreak.
The country's first vice president has reportedly been struck by the disease, which is also affecting eight per cent of Iran's MPs and has killed 92.
Tehran announced total infections rose to 2,922 today and it was said the country's most senior VP, Eshaq Jahangiri, was the latest high-profile figure to contract the disease.
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2 comments:
54,000 prisoners released?
So that means someone in the prison was already infected or they were not sure.
Damn this will make a killer movie, thanks, China!
How the f*ck would releasing 58000 prisoners help stop the virus? Scaring the citizens of the streets!? I sincerely hope they all die.
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