- Saeed Namaki, regime’s Health Minister: Mutated Coronavirus surrounds us. Last night, I received 49 test samples from one of the provinces, 29 of which were infected with the mutated viruses. (IRNA news agency, March 22, 2021)
- Head of the National Emergency Organization: The number of visits to medical centers has doubled compared to last year (Mehr news agency, March 22, 2021)
- Secretary of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce (NCCT) in Bushehr: We have faced a 100% increase in COVID-19 hospitalization during the past week. (Hamshahri daily, March 22, 2021)
- Tabriz University of Medical Sciences: Traveling to almost everywhere and all cities around the Province is dangerous because the British COVID-19 had spread in all cities. (ISNA news agency, March 22, 2021)
- Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences: With a three-fold increase in the number of positive COVID-19 tests among the outpatients, we should expect a rise in hospitalizations shortly. (IRNA, March 22, 2021)
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on March 22, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 522 cities had exceeded 235,700. The number of victims in Tehran reached 54881, Khorasan Razavi 15,355, Khuzestan 13,439, Mazandaran 10,080, Lorestan 9,928, East Azerbaijan 9,248, Qom 8,605, Alborz 5,833, Hamedan 5,443, Semnan 3,975, Ardabil 2,937, South Khorasan 2,296, North Khorasan 3,578, Qazvin 2,669, and Zanjan 2,565.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
March 22, 2021
