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The video shows a morgue worker in a cemetery, surrounded by dozens of Corpses .

Some are wrapped in white linen cloth, he says, were 'done' in The Morning . Then he shows us rows of black Body Bags lined up unceremoniously on The Floor and wait for it to Be Prepared for the funeral.

After This , he travels with his camera phone in a different room And Then in the other. The same gloomy Situation , body to body, laid out on The Floor in a kind of macabre queue.

The video was filmed in the main cemetery in Qom, the Holy city in Central Iran. It was where coronavirus first began spreading in the country.

In the footage, the morgue worker says that all the bodies of victims of the coronavirus, although The Bbc cannot verify his claims.

But it is what he says further that The Internet captured the attention. In a passing comment, he explained that some of the bodies were in the mortuary for five or Six Days .

The images and his comments, pointing to a larger truth: Iran was, to fight, to cope with The Sheer number of people who have died could be much higher than it has acknowledged.

ever Since the video surfaced on 2. March and prompt viral, the response of the Iranian authorities, The Film gave was an insight into how the country is struggling to control The Narrative to coronavirus.

The context of the video

No other country in the Middle East was hit, how hard Covid-19 as Iran.

It is notoriously difficult to get exact information out of the country, but many online posts suggest, the country's mortuaries have been overwhelmed in fact.

This is partly because many of The Professional body-washing machinery have reportedly Covid refused to clean-19 victim over fears he could catch The Virus from Corpses .

Mashhad Seminar, the students body wash in their lunch breaks.

Instead, in some mortuaries, this task of washing The Dead , which falls In Line with the Islamic tradition for Volunteers - in the rule was the students.

it is thought that coronavirus can be concluded from The Dead , The World health organization advises people to an "abundance of caution" because so much is not known about The Virus

so, for example, In Italy, health authorities say that although The Virus is not transmitted, posthumously, it still can survive on clothes - so bodies there is a way to be sealed immediately, and it is prohibited to visit for families, the body of their loved ones.

the Iranian authorities

reacted To the mortuary temple footage went viral, hardliners were quick to respond. The Man arrested was filmed, And Then the authorities, all the bodies were of their attention to calming The Public to be treated with respect and in accordance with Islam.

we must bury loved ones in Accordance with the Sharia law, soon after the death. Before that, though, the body needs to be cleaned with water Three Times , a process called Ghosl-e Meyyet.

And at the beginning of March, Iran's Supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, said that the bodies of Covid-19, the victim must be treated exactly like someone else, cleaned, wrapped in burial shrouds and the regular prayer must be performed for The Dead , for you.

Letter to the Corona-ladies' the back says "If you don't have the courage of A Lion , you can't commit to The Journey of love"

anger is To suppress the viral footage provoked, hardline websites began to a group of morgue Volunteers in particular.

Known as the Corona, Queens, a group of female Volunteers , also in Qom. The cover portrayed them as courageous women committed, that The Dead of the Islamic last Rites , in spite of the possible risks for your health.

there are three teams in each seven-hours-to keep the layers with the demand, and repeat the religious invocations, and chants to help you through your work. They say that if you steel wash the bodies of Young People , they cry to help them sound louder, for the next task.

A Motto written on her back is: "If you don't have the courage of A Lion , you can't commit to The Journey of love. "

With hospitals overrun and mortuaries allegedly struggling to cope with them, is the government awkward questions, whether this crisis is worse than it was made.

How bad the Corona-Virus in Iran?

According to official government statistics, More Than 60,000 people in Iran that have contract The Virus and over 4,000 died. But a group of Iranian researchers in the US believes that The Real numbers are much higher.

to calculate Rather than just to the Iranian government statistics, the researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Virginia Tech, the data is estimated to be infected Iranian travellers who tested positive at The Point of entry into other countries, as well as numerous medical community, what they say is a more accurate figure.

it is estimated that from 20. In March, More Than 15,000 people had lost their lives, and The Number of infections could actually be closer to a million. This is 10 times the official figures, the cases of That Day was 1,433 deaths and nearly 20,000 confirmed cases.

A worker covers The Graves of coronavirus victims with lime.

We can never know the true extent of The Crisis in Iran, but The Signs of its circumference, are dug in The Earth .

In some cases, the bodies of several victims, instead of in individual graves, are placed side by side in a long trench sites, such as grave - Unheard of in this part of The World .

A doctor from the region of Mazandaran of Northern Iran, who asked not to be named, told The Bbc that The Public safety experts had been sent to monitor The Process of foreclosure, the buried, and the covering of The Graves with lime, the officials say, will be used to help disinfect the body and prevent the spread of The Virus .

The Doctor said that in spite of the victim's death, heart certificates a standstill or influenza as a cause of death, the fact that these experts were sent stated that cause of death was, in fact, Covid-19.

Meanwhile, A Number of families who say they have no information about the whereabouts of their loved one. You have said, this will be passed on to you as soon as The Crisis is over, so that you can go to visit The Graves of those that you have lost.

But in the meantime, religious leaders are trying to calm you, to be related, the treated your loved ones with respect and are buried in accordance with all of the correct Islamic Rites .

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Source of news: bbc.com