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Covid19: Iran enforces six-day lockdown in Tehran ahead of Eid al-Adha as cases surge

Tehran: The authorities in Iran have clamped a six-day curfew in Tehran and neighbouring Alborz starting on Tuesday as COVID-19 jumped ahead of Eid al-Adha holidays.

Iran to start mass inoculation of its population with homegrown COVID vaccine in May

Iran/Sputnik: Iran will launch the mass inoculation of its citizens against the Coronavirus using domestically-developed Coviran vaccine in May, the Tasnim News Agency reported on Tuesday ...

Data leak shows Iran under-reported Covid-19 deaths, infected cases

Tehran: One of the worst Covid-19 hit Asian countries outside China, Iran had reported a little over 14,000 deaths as on July 20. However, the figure is believed to be one third of the ac ...

Iran reports 2,364 new coronavirus cases, 171,789 in total

Tehran/Xinhua: Iran's confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 171,789 on Sunday after an overnight registration of 2,364 new infections, official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran's confirmed COVID-19 cases surpass 107,000

Tehran/Xinhua: The Iranian health ministry announced 1,383 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 107,603, official IRNA news ...

Iran sees lowest daily rise in coronavirus deaths in month

Tehran/Sputnik: Iran's death toll from the new coronavirus rose to 4,683 on Tuesday after 98 more people died overnight.

Iran plans to use plasma of recovered people for new COVID-19 patients

Tehran/Xinhua: Masih Daneshvari Hospital in Iran's capital Tehran is considering the use of COVID-19 convalescent plasma in the newly affected patients, Press TV reported on Sunday.

Iran's COVID-19 cases near 14,000

Tehran/Xinhua: Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education on Sunday announced the infection of 13,938 people with novel coronavirus.

Austria bans entry to people coming from Italy amid coronavirus outbreak – Kurz

Moscow/Sputnik: Austria will temporarily bar people from coming to the country from Italy to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Chancellor Sebastian Kurz sa ...