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June 12,2021
The Central Bank of Iran said 200 million yuan ($31.25 million) in blocked forex in South Korea has been used for importing vaccines.
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June 11,2021
Iran’s tally of Covid-19 cases topped the three million mark on Thursday as the national vaccination drive slowed down due to shipment delays.
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May 31,2021
Iranian authorities will start to roll out two homegrown vaccines in the coming days to immunize adult volunteers against Covid-19 as preliminary results estimate an 80-90% efficacy rate.
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May 30,2021
Iran’s first homegrown Covid-19 vaccine, dubbed COV-Iran Barekat, is safe and effective against the infectious disease, the team behind the vaccine’s production said on Sunday.
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May 30,2021
The Iraqi government will free $125 million in debt to Iran to pay for Iran's Covid-19 vaccine order, the energy minister said in Tehran on Saturday.
"The money will be transferred through a...
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May 25,2021
Health Minister Saeed Namaki on Monday urged the close monitoring of sea borders over fears of the highly contagious South African and Indian variants of the coronavirus entering the country.
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May 24,2021
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Iran in mid-February 2020, Tehran’s bus fleet has lost 67% of its earning and is on the verge of bankruptcy, the head of Tehran Bus Company said....
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May 24,2021
The Health Ministry reported a steep decline in Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths on Sunday, logging a nearly 25% drop compared to last week as the fourth wave of the outbreak is brought under...
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May 18,2021
The government has extended a total of 770 trillion rials ($3.37 billion) in financial assistance to households, businesses, the unemployed and the heath sector in the last fiscal year (March 2020-...
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May 18,2021
Health Minister Saeed Namaki on Monday evening said Iran will be able to administer half a million vaccine shots a day in the near future.
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May 18,2021
Health Minister Saeed Namaki said on Monday Iran has set a target of inoculating its 83 million population by the end of the current Iranian year (March 2022).
On the sidelines of a coronavirus...
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May 17,2021
A shipment of more than 1.4 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Iran on Sunday and was delivered to the Health Ministry, according to the deputy head of the Islamic Republic of Iran...
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May 10,2021
Iran aims to vaccinate its 13 million high-risk population by late July to reduce the coronavirus pandemic’s death rate, President Hassan Rouhani announced.
“As per the Health Ministry’s plan, 13...
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May 09,2021
As the novel coronavirus resurges in Iran, local knowledge-based and tech firms have upped the ante in the fight against the lethal disease.
In the early days of the pandemic, the world faced...
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May 07,2021
The National Coronavirus Headquarters has agreed that restrictions imposed on Group II of jobs in the high-risk red and orange zones for coronavirus transmission, including Tehran’s Grand Bazaar...
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May 04,2021
Twelve shipments of Covid-19 vaccines containing over 3.19 million doses were imported from Russia, China, India and South Korea from Feb. 3 to May 2, Fars News Agency quoted Mehrdad Jamal Orounaqi...
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May 04,2021
Tehran Guilds’ Chamber will not comply with lockdown rules while banks, tax offices and municipalities remain open, Fars News Agency quoted Qasem Noudeh-Farahani, the head of the chamber as saying...
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May 02,2021
The Iranian Red Crescent Society imported the largest-ever shipment of Covid-19 vaccines to the country containing one million jabs manufactured by China on Sunday morning.
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May 02,2021
The total number of Covid-19 infections in Iran surpassed the 2.5 million mark on Saturday, as the National Coronavirus Headquarters announced the downward trend of the disease in 15 provinces.
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April 30,2021
President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday called for strict control measures along Iran’s eastern borders to stave off the spread of an Indian variant of the coronavirus.
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April 30,2021
The state-run Iran National Innovation Fund has loaned 8 trillion rials ($33.75 million) to startups after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in mid-February 2020 to cushion the impact of the...
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April 27,2021
Iran on Tuesday launched the second phase of its national Covid-19 vaccination campaign, aiming to immunize people above 65 years as well as patients with preexisting health conditions against the...
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April 27,2021
Iran logged an all-time record of 496 deaths caused by the fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic on Monday, as the virus rampaged through the country.
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April 26,2021
Iran started final phase III clinical trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine COV Iran Barekat involving 20,000 volunteers across six cities.
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April 25,2021
A total of 92,120 billion rials ($382 million) worth of loans have been paid to the applicants of the government’s coronavirus relief package for businesses hurt by the outbreak of Covid-19, an...