A report from Iran says full Covid vaccination greatly reduces deaths, while the country has fallen seriously behind with people blaming tens of thousands of deaths on the government.
A acontroversy has broken out in Iran over 2 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine produced in Iran but sent back to Russia amid lack of vaccines in the country.
Hardliners in Iran are trying to convince the public that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei did not cause a delay in Covid vaccination and all mismanagement is the fault of the previou government.
Fatalities from Covid-19 are seven times official figures, a professor of epidemiology at Tehran University of Medical Science, said Monday as hardliners blamed the former government.
The high number of burials of Covid victims in Iran's capital Tehran shows that official numbers published by the government is very low, a trend that has been criticized before.