As of March 9, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center, Iran has reported 6,566 COVID-19 cases, or about one in every 12,000 people in its population. Given the volume of air travel between Iran and these countries, Tuite’s team estimated how many native COVID-19 cases must have occurred in Iran to produce one case each in these other countries. The rate of infection of parliamentarians would, if applied to Iran’s total population, come up to 6.4 million cases. Chinese authorities were of course wary of introducing more coronavirus carriers into the country, so they tested passengers and found 11 COVID-19 cases out of 311 passengers. This is about 250 times the official number and 15 times the total cases acknowledged worldwide.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 10, 2020 07:30 UTC