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IRGC Spokesman General Ramezan Sharif has highlighted the major role the IRGC and Basij (mobilization) forces play in containing the coronavirus in Iran. explaining their latest efforts to provide health services for the patients with the infectious disease.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson has dismissed the US’ claim that pharmaceuticals are exempted from the anti-Iran sanctions, saying Washington has practically halted the delivery of medicine to Iran and obstructed the activities of a Swiss channel for medicine transfers.

Iran’s Health Ministry spokesman says the application of an indigenized version of Roche’s “Actemra” medicine has resulted in relative improvement of symptoms in some serious cases of coronavirus infections, but it is too soon to make any judgment.

Iran’s Health Ministry says the number of Coronavirus infections has increased to 9,000, out of whom 354 have died and 2,959 have recovered and been discharged from hospital.

As Iran is severely hit by the outbreak of a novel coronavirus, many nurses and doctors have volunteered to work in the special centres for treatment of COVID-19 patients. Among them is a retired nurse who has returned to help tackle the nationwide crisis.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has urged the entire nation to take the novel coronavirus seriously ahead of the Persian New Year holidays, vowing that the government is working hard to minimise the COVID-19’s tolls on the people’s lives.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has assumed the chairmanship of the national taskforce on combatting the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus, replacing the Health Minister at the request of lawmakers.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has agreed to a proposal to consider as “martyrs” medical personnel who have lost their lives in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak in Iran, which has one of the highest numbers of infections outside China.

Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari says reliance on the creativity of the younger generation, the potential of domestic knowledge-based companies, and the homegrown innovation and technology ecosystem will help the county overcome the coronavirus crisis.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker has called for universal intervention to lift inhumane US sanctions against the Islamic Republic in the face of the Coronavirus outbreak.

The Iranian ambassador to Moscow has announced that Russia will provide Iran with 50,000 coronavirus diagnosis kits and the batch will be sent to the country as soon as possible.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has stressed the need for the employment of the potential of the Armed Forces in the fight against COVID-19.

Iran’s Health Ministry says 54 people, the highest number since the outbreak of the COVID-19, have died of coronavirus during the past 24 hours.

Iranian scientists have fabricated an alginate fibrous wound dressing with antibacterial and wound healing properties that can decrease disruption of red blood cells in the wound bed.

Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Seyyed Abbas Mousavi says the first group of Bahraini citizens who had been stranded in Iran following the outbreak of coronavirus has returned home under the auspices of the Sultanate of Oman.

The coronavirus outbreak has forced an Iranian traveller to cut short his trip around the world on camel.

An Iranian official says the homegrown diagnostic kits for the novel coronavirus will come onto the market in the next Iranian month (March 20 - April 19).

Iranian researchers at a science and technology park in the southern city of Kerman have manufactured a wearable wristband that saves the life of swimmers in the absence of a lifeguard.

Iran has granted furloughs to approximately 70,000 prisoners due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

The novel Coronavirus has claimed the lives of two more Iranian politicians.

Iran’s Health Ministry says the number of Coronavirus infections has risen to 7,161, including 237 deaths so far.

Dozens of people have been killed or poisoned after consuming fake alcoholic drinks for protection against the novel Coronavirus.

Chief of Iran’s Crisis Management Organization Ali Najjar has quarantined himself after testing positive for the COVID-19, says the spokesman for the organization.

Iran has announced that the number of Coronavirus infections has increased to 6,566, while 2,134 people have recovered so far.

Iran has cancelled the Nowruz international celebrations which were to be held in Kurdistan province due to the outbreak of Coronavirus in the Islamic Republic and the region.