Iran has been covering up its coronavirus death toll, according to BBC investigation which says the true figure is almost 3 times higher

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• The number of people who have died with COVID-19 in Iran is far higher than the government has publicly admitted, according to figures leaked to BBC Persian.  
• These figures say 42,000 people had died with the virus as of July 20. The official figure the same day was 14,405.
• The official number of cumulative infections was also far higher in the leaked figure than the official one.
• Iran, the worst-hit country in the Middle East, has been accused of covering up its coronavirus cases since early in the pandemic. 
• It is now deep in a resurgence of the virus that the BBC figures show is even worse than had been reported before. 
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The number of people who have died with COVID-19 in Iran is nearly three times the official figure, according to an investigation by the BBC. 

The government's count of infections is also far lower than its public figure, according to leaked internal numbers sent to the BBC's Persian-language service. 

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