- Minoo Mohraz, member of the Scientific Committee of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce (NCCT): Now that the Indian and South African COVID-19 variants have entered Iran, God bless us. We must expect the fifth outbreak in early July. (Hamshahri daily, May 24, 2021)
- Alireza Zali, head of the NCCT in Tehran: The Coronavirus daily hospitalizations in Tehran, which had dropped below 900 patients, has risen to 1,044 again in the past 24 hours. (IRNA news agency, May 23, 2021)
- Head of the internal specialist doctors: We cannot vaccinate all eligible people this year. Vaccination will not end in the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2022). (Mehr news agency, May 24, 2021)
- Member of the regime’s parliamentary Health Committee: The power outage has created problems for vaccination. Health centers are not equipped with cooling devices, and naturally, maintaining the vaccines, which require special care, is difficult. (ISNA news agency, May 24, 2021)
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Monday, May 24, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 543 cities is more than 297,300. The number of victims in Tehran has passed 69,436, Isfahan 19,780, Khuzestan 18,524, Khorasan Razavi 18,115, East Azerbaijan 12,188, Lorestan 12,010, Mazandaran 11,995, West Azerbaijan 11,143, Fars 9,807, Alborz 8,293, Golestan 7,240, Sistan and Baluchestan 6,816, Kerman 6,663, , Hamedan 6,598,Central Province 6,193,Khorasan North 4,308, Hormozgan 3,530, and South Khorasan 2,776.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
May 24, 2021
