More than 45 people died due to COVID-19 in Qom , Iran before February 25 , 2020 , according to Amirabadi .
On 24 February 2020 , Amirabadi claimed that Covid-19 had arrived in Qom three weeks prior in early February , and that the first death had occurred on 13 February but not announced by officials , and that the true number of COVID-19 deaths in Qom was 50 .
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Iran