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A spokesman for Iran’s National Taskforce for Fighting Coronavirus has said Covid-related restrictions that have been already put in place will be extended for another two weeks.
Iran’s Health Ministry has warned of a surge in hospitalizations and deaths due to the new variant of the coronavirus, amid vaccine resistance among part of the population.
The head of the Pasteur Institute of Iran says the PastoCovac vaccine jointly developed by Iran and Cuba creates 100% immunity against the Omicron variant of the virus.
Iran's Health Ministry has declared 120 cities as coronavirus red zones as the country grapples with its sixth wave of the outbreak of the respiratory disease.
A scientist warns that rate of cancer incidence among Iranians is on the rise, although the figures are still lower than the global average, calling for measures to contain the disease and lower the relevant fatalities.
The Covid infections in Iran are on the rise with the Health Ministry figures on Friday showing 36,908 people having tested positive for Covid over the past 24 hours.
Covid 19 kills 61 more people in Iran, with tens of thousands infected with the virus. Iranian health Ministry figures on Thursday showed the deaths happened in the past 24 hours. The daily caseload was also 37,395 including 1,981 hospitalizaitons.
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is quickly spreading among Iranian children, an age group that has not yet been fully vaccinated, an Iranian health official has warned.
Alarm bells have been ringing in Iran over an upward trend in the number of infections with COVID-19, amid the rapid spread of the new Omicron strain, as the infectious disease claims 44 more lives in the country.
A member of Iran’s Coronavirus Scientific Committee has said studies show that the existing vaccines in Iran are capable of protecting people from the new variants of Covid-19 including Omicron.
Iran’s color-coded COVID-19 map has been dotted with seven ‘red’ spots as the country is witnessing an alarming rise in coronavirus infections fueled by the spread of the new Omicron variant.
Increasing numbers of Covid-19 infections and fatalities in Iran suggest that another wave of the respiratory disease is probably looming as a new strain of the virus known as Omicron spreads nationwide.
Iran’s Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education Bahram Einollahi has said vaccination of children aged 9 to 12 years against Covid will begin soon in Iran after the type of vaccine to be injected is approved.
Iran will witness a surge in the number of people suffering from the Alzheimer’s. That’s a prediction by the CEO of the Iranian Association of Dementia and Alzheimer’s.
