AP PHOTOS: In Qom, where Iran outbreak began, virus rages on


              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              A relative weeps during a funeral procession for a oved one, a Covid-19 victim, at Behesht-e-Masoumeh cemetery just outside the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Relatives and family friends attend a funeral procession for their loved one, a Covid-19 victim, at Behesht-e-Masoumeh cemetery just outside the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Relatives bury body of their loved one, a Covid-19 victim, at Behesht-e-Masoumeh cemetery just outside the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Bodies of a Covid-19 victims are shrouded and prepared to transfer for burial at Behesht-e-Masoumeh cemetery just outside the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Body of a Covid-19 victim is shrouded and prepared to transfer for burial at Behesht-e-Masoumeh cemetery just outside the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marzieh Velaei breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marhamat Asadi,who is in medically induced coma, lies on the bed at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Afghan citizen Zamen Mousavi, a Covid-19 patient breathes with oxygen mask at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            
              Covid-19 patient Marhamat Asadi which is in medically induced coma is tended by nurses Fatemeh Najmeh Sadeghi, left, and Fereshteh Babakhanlou at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
            Covid-19 patient Soghra Maarefvand is tended by nurse Reza Omidi at the COVID-19 ICU ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) A Covid-19 patient sits on her bed at the COVID-19 ward of Amir Al-Momenin hospital in the city of Qom, some 80 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)