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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.
The number of Covid deaths and infections in a single day has hit its lowest level in over two years in Iran, as official figures show 13 people have died of the disease from Saturday to Sunday.
Official figures released on Sunday by Iran’s Health Ministry showed that 22 people died of Covid in the past 24 hours. This pushed the total death toll from the virus to 140,962.
The Iranian Health Ministry has said the number of cities marked red in terms of Covid risk has decreased from 55 to 2 and that of orange cities has fallen to 48 from 84.
The Covid deaths in Iran have hit a record low in nearly two years. Iranian Health Ministry figures on Wednesday showed that the disease killed 19 people in the past 24 hours, pushing the total fatalities from the Coronavirus since the pandemic started to 140,896.
According to the Tuesday announcement of Iran’s Health Ministry, the coronavirus outbreak has claimed 23 more lives over the past 24 hours taking the total deaths to 140,877.
A virologist at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in the Iranian capital Tehran has called for a campaign of vaccinations, especially among students, as the new Omicron XE variant of the coronavirus takes hold globally.
The downward trend in Covid deaths and infections is holding in Iran where Health Ministry figures show 23 people died of the disease in the past 24 hours.
Iran’s Health Ministry is warning that the number of cities declared as coronavirus red zones with very high risk of transmission of the disase is going up.
The Iranian Health Ministry said on Friday 1994 people have tested positive for Covid-19 and 33 individuals lost their lives to the respiratory disease over the past day.
A senior Iranian health official says some 50 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been stored in the country. Deputy Health Minister Kamal Heidari said another 80 million doses will be imported in the current Iranian year, too.
There has been no change in the number of red and blue cities in Iran in terms of risk from Covid 19 despite that the country is witnessing a downward trend in the number of deaths and infections from the disease.
The number of daily Covid deaths keeps declining in Iran with the Health Ministry figures on Tuesday showing 28 people killed in the past 24 hours. This is the lowest daily death toll from the Coronavirus in many months.
