Coronavirus

Iran’s war on COVID-19 a model for containing contagious diseases: President

Mar 14, 2021 04:50

President Hassan Rouhani said Iran’s successful handling of the situation after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic can provide a roadmap to tackling contagious diseases in future.
Coronavirus in Iran: Hospital admissions down to below 500

Mar 14, 2021 04:16

Iran’s Health Ministry said 485 coronavirus patients have been admitted to hospitals across the country over the past 24 hours.
Iranian COVID-19 vaccine ready for 2nd phase of clinical trials

Mar 14, 2021 03:59

Iran is going to test its first homegrown vaccine for the coronavirus on a larger group of volunteers in the second phase of clinical trials, a researcher said.
Iran’s economy out of recession after two growth quarters: Chief banker

Mar 14, 2021 02:48

Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati says the county’s economy has emerged from nearly three years of recession caused by US sanctions and exacerbated by the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Coronavirus daily death toll in Iran drops to lowest rate in nearly 10 months

Mar 12, 2021 13:07

Iran on Friday registered the lowest number of daily deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 287 days.
EU accuses UK of banning coronavirus vaccine exports to bloc

Mar 12, 2021 04:21

Faced with production problems with the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, the European Union has blocked shipments to places like Australia amid shortages.
Iran takes delivery of 150k doses of COVAXIN from India

Mar 12, 2021 04:15

Iranian health ministry has taken delivery of the first batch of India-made coronavirus vaccines, a fifth foreign vaccine supply arriving in the country in the past two months as authorities go ahead with a nationwide immunization program against the virus.
Denmark becomes 6th European state to suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine over blood clot fears

Mar 11, 2021 12:01

Danish health authorities said Thursday they were temporarily suspending the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after some patients developed blood clots since receiving the jab.
2020 was deadliest year in US history, CDC finds

Mar 11, 2021 11:19

The United States had its deadliest year in its history in 2020 after the COVID-19 pandemic caused a 15 percent increase in the country’s death rate, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention will announce, two senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the matter told US media.
The real deadly global pandemic: Acute food shortages as the world panics over COVID-19

Mar 11, 2021 06:01

As the pandemic continues to upend lives across the world, it has impacted the entire food supply chain.