Coronavirus

Sanctions on Iran, others facing coronavirus must be urgently re-evaluated: UN

Mar 25, 2020 02:10

The United Nations rights chief says any sanctions imposed on Iran, among other countries grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, should be “urgently re-evaluated” to support lives of millions of people worldwide.
US using COVID-19 to express hostility: Iran’s Shamkhani

Mar 25, 2020 00:28

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani lambasted the US authorities for resorting to the coronavirus outbreak for showing hostility towards other nations.
IRGC gearing up for biodefense maneuvers, disinfection operations across Iran

Mar 24, 2020 12:59

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is gearing up for fresh biological defense drills as well as countrywide disinfection operations amid warnings that the new coronavirus pandemic may be the outcome of a biological attack targeting certain nations.
WHO: US could become next coronavirus epicenter

Mar 24, 2020 12:56

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, which finally forced reluctant organizers to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
Police clear citizenship law protest site in Indian capital, citing virus lockdown

Mar 24, 2020 12:53

Police have cleared out a long-running protest against a controversial citizenship law in the Indian capital, New Delhi, citing the a recently-announced lockdown to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
Tokyo Olympics postponed until 2021 over coronavirus pandemic

Mar 24, 2020 09:53

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed to no later than the summer of 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe, the International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis of capitalism

Mar 24, 2020 09:51

Climate change, war, genocide, economic exploitation, famine and curable disease take more victims daily than COVID-19 will in its entire reign. Because these phenomena are foundational to the status quo, victimizing those subjected to it rather than those who subject others to it, they aren’t shocking but routine. As such, they will never inspire the coordinated global response that coronavirus already has.
Iran screens 41 million for coronavirus symptoms

Mar 24, 2020 09:17

Iran says it has screened more than 41 million people for the new coronavirus symptoms as part of the measures that Tehran is taking to rein in the spread of a new coronavirus across the country.
Coronavirus cases in Italy probably ‘ten times greater than announced’

Mar 24, 2020 08:56

The number of cases of coronavirus in Italy is probably 10 times higher than the official tally of almost 64,000, the head of the agency that is collating the data said on Tuesday.
US states desperate for coronavirus help as Trump eyes restriction ease

Mar 24, 2020 08:55

A chorus of support to urge Americans to stay indoors is gathering more calls, with several more US governors ordering millions of people to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus.