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Iran ready to reopen schools, ease COVID curbs: President
Sep 10, 2021 00:11President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi says his government is intent on reopening schools after two years of closures because of the coronavirus as he insists that his pandemic control program is on the right path.
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Iran reports 26,821 new cases of COVID-19; 505 deaths
Sep 09, 2021 07:10The Iranian health ministry said on Thursday that as many as 505 people lost their lives as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic while 26,821 more people were infected with the disease in the past 24 hours.
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Iran to start emergency use of Fakhra homegrown COVID-19 vaccine: Defense minister
Sep 09, 2021 07:01Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani says the country’s domestically-developed and produced Fakhra coronavirus vaccine has begun the third stage of clinical trial and has been authorized by Heath Ministry to start emergency use.
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Nearly 300% more COVID patients in US hospitals at weekend than a year ago
Sep 08, 2021 07:47The number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the US this Labor Day weekend was nearly 300% higher than this time last year, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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Coronavirus figures in Iran: Death toll exceeds 112,000
Sep 08, 2021 07:46The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran has surpassed 112,000 after more than 530 patients succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Rich countries prolong pandemic by hoarding COVID vaccines: WHO
Sep 08, 2021 00:55Developed countries' hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and other tools are prolonging the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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Coronavirus in Iran: 635 patients die in 24 hours
Sep 07, 2021 07:46Health Ministry put the total death toll from the coronavirus in the country at more than 111,000.
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China’s Sinopharm to develop second-generation mRNA COVID-19 vaccine
Sep 07, 2021 05:57China National Pharmaceutical Group Sinopharm is working to produce its own mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in an effort to more effectively fight the new variants of the coronavirus.
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Iran’s home-grown Noora COVID-19 vaccine enters second stage of human trial
Sep 07, 2021 01:39A senior official with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran’s domestically-developed and produced Noora coronavirus vaccine has entered the second stage of human trial, only a day after Iranian scientists began the third phase of the clinical trial of homegrown Razi Cov Pars COVID-19 vaccine.
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Some 30 million doses of vaccine injected in Iran
Sep 06, 2021 08:24The Iranian Health Ministry said nearly 30 million jabs of COVID-19 vaccines have been injected across the country.