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TEHRAN, Iran 鈥?Standing over the still body of an intubated 5-year-old boy wearing nothing but a plastic diaper, an Iranian health care worker in a hazmat suit and mask begged the public for just one thing: Stop drinking industrial alcohol over fears about the new coronavirus.The boy, now blind after his parents gave him toxic methanol in the mistaken belief it protects against the virus, is just jordan one of hundreds of victims of an epidemic inside the pandemic now gripping Iran.Iranian media report nearly 300 people have been killed and more than 1,000 sickened so far by ingesting methanol across the Islamic Republic, where drinking alcohol is banned and where those who do rely on bootleggers. An Iranian doctor helping the country Health Ministry told The Associated Press on Friday the problem was even greater, giving a death toll of around 480 with 2,850 people sickened.The poisonings come as fake remedies spread across social media in Iran, where people remain deeply suspicious of the government after it downplayed the crisis for days before it overwhelmed the country. Other countries have only one problem, which is the new coronavirus pandem nike dunk ic. But we are fighting on two fronts here, said Dr. Hossein Hassanian, an adviser to Irans Health Ministry who gave the higher figures to the AP. We have to both cure the people with alcohol poisoning and also fight the coronavirus. For most people, the new coronavi stanley cup rus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and co