Alcohol kills 27 in Iran after Coronavirus cure rumours. State news agency IRNA reported the deaths on Monday. Iran is one of three hot-spots outside China-where the disease originated-which is struggling to contain the deadly virus.
At least 27 people have died from methanol poisoning in Iran after downing bootleg liquor following rumours that alcohol can be effective in treating the deadly coronavirus.
Reports reaching iHarare from The Straits Times have revealed that 20 died in the southwestern province of Khuzestan and seven in the northern region of Alborz after consuming the bootleg alcohol.
The deputy prosecutor from one of Iran’s provinces, Alborz, Mohammad Aghayari, told the state media that the dead succumbed to alcohol poisoning after being ‘misled by content online, thinking they were fighting coronavirus and curing it’. A spokesman for Jundishapur medical university in Ahvaz also revealed that 218 people are currently hospitalised there after being poisoned.
Although drinking alcohol is banned in the Islamic republic, local media regularly report of lethal alcohol poisoning cases caused by the bootleg liquor which is smuggled into the country.
Iran has been scrambling to contain the spread of the Covid-19 illness which has hit all of the country’s 31 provinces. Almost 6,000 coronavirus infections and 145 deaths have been reported in Iran. However, the actual number is thought to be much higher, as suspicions are rife that the official numbers could be doctored to downplay the severity of the outbreak.
Source – iHarare
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