Furious calls are growing louder in Iran against the pandemic mismanagement after the country’s infection rates tripled in a matter of two days. According to official statistics April 8, all provincial capitals and over three-fourths of the country were mapped as red zones. The number of daily cases hit a record new high of 22,586, pushing beyond 2 million the entire population of those infected since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The numbers markedly spiked after the Persian New Year holidays, but this came as no surprise to epidemiologists, whose calls for nationwide restrictions were shrugged by the National Coronavirus Task Force. Now, the question of accountability is largely met with confusion and contradictions.
