INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ending July 29, compared with a week earlier, the Health Ministry reported on Saturday.A total of 204 deaths were announced by the Health
Ministry during the mentioned week, a significant rise in comparison to 69 in the week ending July 22.The number of inpatients also rose
from 4,119 to 7,376, and the number of outpatients climbed from 28,617 to 46,171, according to the report.Seventh peak loomingA new wave of
the coronavirus is currently sweeping the country, and the seventh peak of the disease is expected to occur by October.A new wave of the
coronavirus is currently sweeping the country, and the seventh peak of the disease is expected to occur by October.Considering that
infection with the BA5 variant is milder than other variants, it is expected that the seventh peak of the disease to occur by October with
lesser mortality, Hamidreza Jamaati, secretary of the National Scientific Committee of Coronavirus, said on July 22.If preventive measures
such as wearing masks and injecting booster doses are adopted, we will not experience the rates of mortality that happened in March with
Omicron or last summer with Delta, he added.At present, in Asia and Europe, the incidence of Covid and its mortality is steady and
declining, while in some African and American countries, there is a growing trend of omicron variants such as BA4 and BA5, which have not
spread in Iran, Jamaati said in May.MG
