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Iranian Health Ministry figures show a downward trend in Covid-19 cases and deaths. The figures on Wednesday showed that 203 people died of Covid in the past 24 hours.
Amir-Reza was diagnosed with pineoblastoma (brain tumor) at the age of 5 and recovered after 2 years of treatment. His parents, being aware of Amir-Reza’s interest in singing, decided to introduce him as a singer to perform at events organized by a cancer-stricken children’s charity.
The sixth wave of the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Iran has claimed 207 more lives taking the total number of Covid-19 fatalities to 136,838.
A prominent immunologist who helped build the world’s first vaccine against COVID-19 says receiving a fourth dose of inoculation will be necessary in three months’ time if the Omicron variant of the coronavirus stays the dominant variant until then.
Iranian Health Ministry figures on Sunday showed that 241 more people died of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. The latest deaths push to 136,631 the total number of people killed by Covid since the pandemic began two years ago.
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has underlined the need to persuade people to get their third dose of Covid vaccine and fine people who violate healthcare protocols.
The number of Iranian cities declared coronavirus red zones has decreased from 337 to 184 as the country is still grappling with the six wave of the respiratory disease.
Iran’s health minister says he expects the situation concerning the Omicron outbreak improve in the country thanks to the high percentage of vaccination against Covid among Iranians.
Iran has recorded another day of over 200 Coronavirus deaths as it fights the sixth wave of the pandemic, being pushed by the Omicron variant of the virus.
The total number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in Iran has surpassed 140,000,000 as the country tries to contain its sixth wave of the outbreak that killed 223 people over the past 24 hours.
Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across Iran, is gradually driving the daily death toll higher, with more patients diagnosed with COVID-19 being admitted to hospitals countrywide.
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.