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Iran’s health officials have updated the number of ‘red’ cities on the color-coded COVID-19 map to 337, up from 247, as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus keeps spreading at a lightning speed countrywide.
Infections with COVID-19 have claimed 187 more lives in Iran over the past day, amid predictions by health officials that the Omicron wave of the coronavirus will reach the peak in two weeks.
Iran's Interior Ministry has announced that Covid-19 PCR tests performed in Iraq lack validity so Iranian pilgrims returning to the country should have received two doses of coronavirus vaccine.
The director of Tehran’s Crisis Prevention and Management Organization says the number of infections and deaths from Covid’s last strain known as Omicron has doubled.
A senior Iranian health official says observations show the Omicron strain of the coronavirus is able to infect the lungs as well, although it mainly affects the upper respiratory tract.
Covid death toll remains high in Iran where the Coronavirus pandemic, now driven into the Omicron strain of the virus, is infecting tens of thousands on a daily basis.
The numbers of Civid-19 infections and deaths are surging in Iran as the country grapples with its sixth wave of the outbreak of the respiratory disease
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has referred to the rapid spread of the Covid 19’s new strain known as Omicron, stressing the need to pay serious attention to preventive measures.
Officials say Iran's Razi Cov Pars COVID-19 vaccine is proving to be more effective than some imported types and there has been demand for it from a number of countries.
The spread of a new variant of the coronavirus known as Omicron has pushed up the number of Iranian cities declared Covid-19 red zones to 247 with no blue (very low risk) cities left in the country.
The director of biotechnology of Iran’s Razi Institute says studies show Razi CovPars Covid-19 vaccine is 2.5 to three times more effective than Sinofarm.
130 more people in Iran have lost their lives to the coronavirus, the latest figures released by the Iranian Health Ministry showed on Thursday as a new variant of the virus known as Omicron has spread across the country.
Iranian experts have designed and developed a test kit capable of detecting infection with the coronavirus within only 20 seconds and with high accuracy.
Iran begins vaccination of 5 to 9-year-old children amid warnings by the Health Ministry about the threat the Omicron variant of the coronavirus poses to kids.
Caretaker of the ministry’s public relations center says the vaccination began nationwide for the age group on Tuesday.
