{"id":9954,"date":"2021-01-18T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=151386"},"modified":"2021-01-18T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T15:48:00","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-an-iranian-nurse-on-the-covid-19-front-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-iranian-nurse-on-the-covid-19-front-line\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day In The Life Of An Iranian Nurse On The COVID-19 Front Line"},"content":{"rendered":"
Iranian nurse Somayeh Hosseinzadeh had to work back-to-back shifts away from her family for the first few weeks of the coronavirus pandemic and says her department at Tehran’s Shariati Hospital was like a “war scene,” with elderly people and pregnant women dying around her. Iran has reported over 1.2 million COVID-19 infections and over 50,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic, though the country has been accused of covering up deaths.<\/p>\n\n