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December 29,2020
As more and more cases of the new coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom are detected worldwide, Iran’s National Coronavirus Headquarters called for screening measures at...
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December 26,2020
Although the coronavirus infection rate has slowed, the National Coronavirus Headquarters announced on Saturday that it will extend the nightly curfew to most cities across the country to keep the...
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December 26,2020
The Central Bank of Iran on Saturday announced financial relief to businesses battered by months of lockdowns to curb the Covid-19 pandemic.
Proposed by the National Coronavirus Headquarters "non...
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December 25,2020
Three days into Iran’s Covid-19 vaccine trial registration, over 27,000 have signed up to participate in the national drive to defeat the pandemic.
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December 23,2020
Iran recorded 153 overnight fatalities on Wednesday, its lowest daily death count since mid-September, as the third wave of infections subsided across the nation.
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December 22,2020
Despite the recent decline in Covid-19 cases and deaths in Iran, the deadly outbreak has not been contained in the Iranian capital Tehran, the head of the city’s coronavirus taskforce said.
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December 21,2020
Iran is set to start human trials for a locally-developed Covid-19 vaccine within days, vaccinating 56 volunteers in the first stage of the trial, a member of the National Coronavirus Headquarters...
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December 20,2020
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Sunday praised the work of nurses across the country during the coronavirus pandemic.
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December 20,2020
President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday announced that in one month, the number of cities on the highest coronavirus alert has dived from 160 to zero, as stringent measures imposed in the past two...
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December 15,2020
Deaths caused by Covid-19 across Tehran Province have dropped, the province’s governor general said on Tuesday.
“Although we have not reached stable circumstances,” Anoushirvan Mohseni-Bandpey...
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December 15,2020
Iran is negotiating with India, Russia and China to buy Covid-19 vaccines, although unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States have prevented any transaction, the Health Ministry said on...
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December 14,2020
Health Minister Saeed Namaki announced late Saturday that the third wave of Covid-19 infections in Iran has been brought under control with only 23 cities remaining on red alert.
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December 13,2020
President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday announced that most provinces across Iran are reporting a decline in infections, as National Coronavirus Headquarters removed a further 22 cities from red alert...
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December 11,2020
Health Minister Saeed Namaki said on Tuesday daily deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic have dropped by 40% in the past three weeks, as tightened safety measures and increased public...
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December 12,2020
The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran says importing the Covid-19 vaccine is more complicated than procuring other medical needs.
Abdolnasser Hemmati said the problem is largely about the...
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December 09,2020
Iran will soon start vaccinating its high-risk population against Covid-19, President Hassan Rouhani announced on Wednesday.
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December 09,2020
Iran is negotiating with four vaccine manufacturing countries to pre-order 21 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to halt the spread of the infectious disease that has killed over 50,000 Iranians...
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December 08,2020
The government has estimated 10 trillion rials ($38.46 million) for the procurement of coronavirus vaccine in the budget bill of the next fiscal year (March 2021-22), an official with Plan and...
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December 07,2020
In the next fiscal year (starting March 2021), Tehran Municipality will receive 17.5 trillion rials ($67.3 million) for streamlining the metropolis’s public transportation, almost half the amount...
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December 07,2020
Health Minister Saeed Namaki on Sunday night cautioned against false assumptions of a return to normality due to the recent drop in cases and deaths, noting that complacency could make the...
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December 06,2020
Overnight deaths caused by the coronavirus outbreak in Iran fell to its lowest in nearly two months, returning to just under 300, and confirmed cases sank below 12,000 for the first time in three...
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December 05,2020
President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said coronavirus transmissions have declined in Tehran, now on alert Level Two, but that it can regress to Level Three within a week or two, if health protocols...
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December 05,2020
The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Iran soared past one million on Thursday, less than 10 months into the pandemic, as the Health Ministry reported a decline in hospitalizations and...
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December 03,2020
The National Coronavirus Taskforce moved 96 cities across the country, including the capital Tehran, from the alert level “red” to “orange”, as restrictive measures introduced since last month...
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December 02,2020
The Statistical Center of Iran has published a report based on the International Classification of Activities for Time Use Statistics (ICATUS 2016), illustrating a classification of all the...