- Alireza Raisi, spokesman for the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce (NCCT): The (new) outbreak has started in some provinces, including, Hormozgan, Khuzestan, Yazd, Gilan, Mazandaran, Golestan, West Azerbaijan, and Lorestan. Tehran and Alborz provinces are still in yellow. (State TV, February 6, 2021)
- Lorestan Province Governor: Last week’s hospitalizations increased by 20 to 25 percent compared to the previous week (IRNA news agency, February 6, 2021)
- Head of Bandar Mahshahr Health Network: The tripling number of COVID-19 patients caused us to face a shortage of beds last night. If the situation continues like this, we will surely face a severe peak like summer when we lost a lot of people. (Khorna State-run media, February 4, 2021)
- Kerman University of Medical Sciences: We have a 10% increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations compared to the previous week as the percentage of those hospitalized in a critical condition has also increased. (IRNA, February 6, 2021)
- Arak Medical University: The probability of the fourth Coronavirus peak in Central Province is high. (IRNA, February 5, 2021)
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMO/MEK) announced on Saturday, February 6, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 480 cities had exceeded 212,000. The number of victims in Tehran is 51,041, Khorasan Razavi 14,260, Isfahan 13,525, Khuzestan 10,550, Mazandaran 8,797, Lorestan 8,628, West Azerbaijan 7,813, Gilan 7,556, Golestan 5,489, Yazd 3,892, Qazvin 2,339, Zanjan 2,285, Hormozgan 2,240, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 1,700, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad 1,574.
The public’s outrage over the regime’s delay in providing COVID-19 vaccine is on the rise as the death toll continues to rise. Yet, today, Rouhani brazenly dismissed any expectation regarding a timely vaccination, saying the vaccination “has its own problems. We in Iran have a population of 80 to 84 million and they need to be vaccinated requiring a considerable number of vaccines, so we are starting to work on a priority basis. It can take seven, eight, or 10 months. If accelerated it may still take five to six months … so we have to prepare ourselves for another year.”
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
February 6, 2021
