Problems with the accurate reporting of COVID-19 statistics in Iran

Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses ranging from the common cold to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Every day, the number of countries affected by the coronavirus increases, and as the virus progresses it will likely become a pandemic. Given the increasing numbers of infected cases and deaths, the coronavirus is becoming a challenging problem worldwide (1, 2). The epidemic of COVID-19 started from Wuhan, China, in late 2019 and spread to other countries. At the time of writing (June 15, 2020), 7,995,877 people in about 200 countries were infected, and 435,598 had died of this coronavirus disease (3).World statistics on COVID-19 show that the outbreak and mortality rate of this disease is much higher than that of the Influenza A or SARS-CoV viruses...