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Health Ministry receives over 1mn doses of imported COVID vaccines
Aug 15, 2021 07:09The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) says it has delivered the 14th consignment of imported COVID-19 vaccines to the Health Ministry.
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Mississippi hospital puts beds in parking garage to cope with COVID-19 surge
Aug 15, 2021 06:45The crush of new COVID-19 infections in Mississippi has become so dire that the state has turned to efforts reminiscent of the earliest days of the US pandemic, when a field hospital was set up in New York's Central Park and a medical ship was moored in the Hudson River.
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Corona-infected children hospitalized in US in record numbers
Aug 15, 2021 04:31The number of children hospitalized across the US with COVID-19 has hit a record high of just over 1,900 as hospitals in southern states were stretched to capacity fighting outbreaks caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant.
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Iran, Australia jointly developing COVID vaccine
Aug 15, 2021 04:04Companies from Iran and Australia are jointly working on a coronavirus vaccine that is expected to become available in late September, an Iranian official said.
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Iran announces strict anti-COVID measures as cases soar
Aug 15, 2021 02:22Iran has imposed a full five-day lockdown starting August 16 to control a major surge in number of coronavirus infections.
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Iran to import 30 million doses of COVID vaccine: President
Aug 15, 2021 00:44Iran's President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi said plans have been finalized to import 30 million doses of vaccine for the coronavirus.
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COVID deaths in Iran exceed 97,000
Aug 15, 2021 00:29The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran has exceeded 97,000, with over 460 more Iranians succumbing to the deadly disease in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry.
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More than 80 students potentially exposed to Covid after parent sent child to school following positive test
Aug 14, 2021 03:56More than 80 students in Nevada, US were potentially exposed to Covid-19 on their first day of the 2021-2022 school year after a parent reportedly sent their child to school despite both the parent and child testing positive for the disease just two days earlier, according to officials.
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No hurdle in financing imports of COVID vaccine: President
Aug 13, 2021 12:03President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi said his administration has no problem in allocating currency to the imports of vaccine for the coronavirus as this process is gathering pace.
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China: Delta-driven COVID outbreak under control
Aug 13, 2021 10:43Chinese health officials said Friday they were bringing the country's worst COVID outbreak in months under control after new infections hit a seven-month high earlier this week.