In any event 27 individuals lost their lives from methanol poisoning in Iran after bits of gossip that drinking liquor can help fix the novel coronavirus contamination, state news organization IRNA reported.
The episode of the infection in the nation is one of the deadliest outside of China, where the infection started.
Drinking liquor is prohibited in Iran for everybody with the exception of some non-Muslim minorities.
A representative for Jundishapur Medical University in Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan, said 218 individuals had been hospitalized subsequent to being poisoned by alcohol. The poisonings were brought about by “gossipy tidbits that drinking liquor can be compelling in treating coronavirus,” Ali Ehsanpour said.
The deputy prosecutor of Alborz, Mohammad Aghayari, revealed to IRNA the dead had tanked methanol subsequent to being “deluded by content on the internet, thinking they were battling coronavirus and curing it.”
Iran has been scrambling to contain the spread of the COVID-19 disease which has hit the entirety of the nation’s 31 territories, leaving 237 individuals dead, and contaminating 7,161.
As indicated by IRNA, 16 out of 69 affirmed cases have passed on of coronavirus contamination in Khuzestan as of Sunday.