{"id":14929,"date":"2020-02-24T19:56:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T10:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/24\/coronavirus-dead-in-iranian-city-of-qom"},"modified":"2020-02-24T19:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T10:56:19","slug":"coronavirus-iran-denies-cover-up-after-reports-of-50-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14929","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Iran denies cover-up after reports of 50 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran rejects claim death toll is more than four times higher than official figures suggest<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/24\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-hubei-latest-news-italy-lombardy-south-korea-iran-japan-cases-infections-death-toll-outbreak-xi-jinping-update\">Coronavirus latest \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Iranian government has denied trying to cover up the full extent of the coronavirus outbreak after reports suggested the death toll from the disease was more than four times higher than official figures claim.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a lawmaker from Qom \u2013 a Shia holy city 75 miles (120 km) south of the capital, Tehran, accused Iran\u2019s health minister of lying about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/23\/world-is-approaching-coronavirus-tipping-point-experts-say\">the scale of the outbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/24\/coronavirus-dead-in-iranian-city-of-qom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran rejects claim death toll is more than four times higher than official figures suggestCoronavirus latest \u2013 live updatesThe Iranian government has denied trying to cover up the full extent of the coronavirus outbreak after reports suggested the de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1069,914,448,1113,212,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-iran","category-kuwait","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14930,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions\/14930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}