Graeme Wood estimated that as many as 2 million Iranians were afflicted with the coronavirus during the pandemic .
On 9 March , Graeme Wood stated that he deems the official count `` certainly an undercount '' , and provided alternative estimates which he calls `` doomsday figures , ” estimating that in the neighborhood of 2 million Iranians were afflicted. On 28 February 2020 , Michael Ryan , chief of the WHO health emergencies programme told the press that the mortality rate in Iran indicated its outbreak might be more widespread than realised .
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Iran