Healthcare

Head of Iran’s Scientific Association of the Elderly Ahmad Delbari says the number of senior citizens in Iran has doubled in over four decades.

Iranian health workers have administered 1,082,000 doses of Covid vaccine to citizens in the past 24 hours.

Iran’s caretaker Education Minister Alireza Kazemi says the country’s school reopening atlas will be unveiled on November 6.

Afghans residing in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad have received over 62,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine.

Iranian health officials say 56,596,124 Covid vaccine shots have been administered to people in the country so far.

Iranian health authorities say the country is going to import 60 million doses from the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine producer Sinopharm from October 2 to November 1, 2021.

Tehran’s municipality has started to vaccinate homeless people, addicts, Afghans without staying permits, homeless children and people who search garbage cans in the Iranian capital.

Iran’s president has called for the implementation of the smart coronavirus management plan on a trial basis regarding the enforcement of COVID-19 protocols.

Iran's Ministry of Health says the fifth peak of Covid-19 is over is most of the country.

The 23rd consignment of coronavirus vaccines provided through the good offices of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has arrived at Imam Khomeini International Airport.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to revive its stalled investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 with a fresh probe team.

Another 6 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have arrived in Iran, bringing to well over 71 million the number of Covid vaccines imported so far.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi says nearly 50 million Covid vaccine shots have been administered to Iranian citizens so far.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez met Friday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Amirabdollahian and Rodriguez discussed bilateral ties, especially their trade cooperation.

Coronavirus has killed 317 people in Iran from Wednesday to Thursday. Meanwhile, 16,362 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.

The coronavirus is officially the deadliest pandemic in American history, ending the reign of the 1918 influenza pandemic that reportedly killed 675,000 people.

Iran’s Covid-19 downward trend in deaths, infections and hospitalizations continued with authorities saying 286 people died of the disease from Tuesday to Wednesday. The fatalities were down 93 compared with a day before.

Covid-19 has killed 379 more people in Iran. That’s according to official figures from the country’s Ministry of Health on Tuesday.

Iran’s Headquarters for Execution of Imam’s Order, the foundation in charge of the country’s Coviran Barekat coronavirus vaccine, says six million doses of the jab has so far been delivered to the health ministry for public administration.

Iran’s Health Ministry announced on Sunday, Covid-19 has killed 391 more people over the past 24 hours in the country.

Iran’s health minister says vaccination against the coronavirus for students aged 12 to 18 has begun across the country starting Sunday.

The number of coronavirus vaccine doses administered in Iran has surpassed 42 million as health officials try to further accelerate inoculations.

Covid-19 has killed 364 more people in Iran. Iran’s Health Ministry announced Friday, the deaths happened in the past 24 hours.

A lack of coordination between Iran’s National Task Force Against Coronavirus and traffic police on removing night-time traffic curfew has caused confusion among people.

Iran’s Covid deaths have surpassed the grim milestone of 115,000.