Healthcare

All Iranian cities have exited the emergency “red” state on the country’s color-coded Covid-19 map as the highly transmissible coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease, keeps receding across the country.

Covid has killed 12 people in Iran in the past 24 hours. That’s according to a tally released by the Iranian Health Ministry on Friday. The ministry also said that Friday’s daily caseload was 375.

The World Health Organization estimated that nearly 15 million people had died from causes related to the coronavirus pandemic by the end of 2021, putting the toll from Covid-19 at nearly three times the number that had been officially recorded by countries.

The daily Covid death toll in Iran has not changed compared to Wednesday when it hit its lowest level in over two years. The Thursday figures released by the Iranian Health Ministry showed that 7 people died of the virus in the past 24 hours. The same number of people lost their lives on Wednesday.

Iran’s health minister has cautioned the public against taking the coronavirus lightly amid a sharp decline in cases of infection and fatalities, advising the people to get another dose of vaccine this year to further boost their immune system against Covid-19.

Iran’s Health Ministry has warned of an outbreak of new variants of the Coronavirus in the summer if the inoculation program is not taken seriously.

The number of Covid deaths in Iran has become single-digit for the first time in over two years. Iranian Health Ministry figures on Wednesday showed 7 people had died of the virus in the past 24 hours.

Fatalities from the coronavirus in Iran increased by 17 on Tuesday as the country seems to have largely contained its sixth wave of the outbreak.

The deputy of the Iranian Health Ministry has said 70+ year old citizens who got their third dose of Covid vaccine over three months ago must go to vaccination places to get their fourth.

Iranian health Ministry figures put at 18 the total number of people killed by Covid from Sunday to Mondsy across the country.

Iran’ Health Ministry says the National Taskforce Against the Coronavirus is not considering ending mandatory face masks or vaccinations, for fear of a surge in cases.

The Iranian Health Ministry says no cities or towns in the country are marked red now due to a downward trend in Covid deaths and infections across the country.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has ordered government officials especially Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi to carefully monitor traffic of people along the borders to prevent the entry of Covid patients into the country.

The lowest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in almost two years were registered in Iran over the past 24 hours, Iran’s Health Ministry announced on Saturday.

The Iranian Health Ministry figures show that downward trend in Covid deaths and infections is holding countrywide.

Covid has killed 19 more people in Iran. That’s according to Iranian health ministry figures released on Thursday.

Iran’s Health Ministry has reported 1,009 new infections with Covid-19 over the past day, a figure that shows a slight drop in coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours.

A World Health Organization official has thanked Iran for vaccinating Afghan nationals during the Covid pandemic.

The Coronavirus disease has claimed 28 more lives in Iran as the country seems to have largely contained its sixth wave of the outbreak.

Iran has become the leading country in the region in battling and eliminating Malaria, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

Organs from a brain-dead 19-year-old Iranian girl have been donated to four patients in the northeastern city of Mashhad.

The director of Pasteur Institute of Iran says the vaccine-producer now has a capacity to manufacture 5 million doses of its pastocovac Coronavirus vaccine every month.

The director of Iran’s Center for the Management of Infectious Diseases says 98 people have contracted measles in the country. Dr. Gouya told the IRB that the patients include 70 foreign nationals.

The number of Covid deaths in Iran has jumped compared to Sunday’s tally. Figures released by the Health Ministry on Monday showed that 21 people had died of Covid in the past 24 hours.

The scientific secretary of Iran’s Taskforce Against the Coronavirus says Iran is not facing new outbreak of the deadly delta variant of the virus, but there are concerns that the variant could re-enter the country through such countries as Turkey.