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Iranian Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeid Namaki has expressed his gratitude to the Interior Ministry and the Basij volunteers for their contribution to the nationwide battle with the novel coronavirus.
Tehran University of Medical Sciences and an Iranian social network of healthcare professionals have launched a joint knowledge sharing network that enables the health workforce to share their experiences in managing, containing and curing the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19.
Iran’s Health Ministry says 158 people have died of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the highest number of deaths a day since the beginning of the outbreak in the country.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has unveiled a "smart social distancing" plan due to be enforced across the country as a new phase of measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19.
Iran's ambassador and permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency says the IAEA will soon send two rapid coronavirus diagnostic test devices to Iran.
An Iranian epidemiologist has hailed South Korea’s approach in containing the deadly coronavirus saying by using the isolation policy it managed to stop its spread.
Iran’s Health Minister Saeid Namaki says the WHO officials have praised Iran's activities in the fight against Coronavirus and sought to use the country’s experiences throughout the region.
Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari says three domestic teams are working separately on research into a coronavirus vaccine.
An Iranian official says the EU’s financial mechanism to facilitate trade with Iran known as INSTEX is not meeting the country's needs to confront the Coronavirus.
Iranian government spokesman says the Islamic Republic is now capable of exporting its homegrown COVID-19 diagnosis kits, but at the moment all these kits are being used for domestic needs.
A manager of an Iranian pharmaceutical company describes how the United States’ sanctions against the Islamic Republic have devastated the country’s health sector, especially now that Iran is gripped by the novel coronavirus.
The university students of Iran have sent a shipment of health and medical supplies to people of the United States amid the outbreak of coronavirus that is rapidly spreading through the US.
The coronavirus has forced Iranians to change their traditional habit and stay home this year on the ancient national festival of Sizdah Bedar or the Nature's Day.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says his administration has allocated about $10 billion to help people and to address the problems of troubled businesses in face of the coronavirus outbreak.
Iran's Health Ministry says the country's death toll from the novel coronavirus has risen to 3,036, including 138 new cases confirmed the in past 24 hours.
An Iranian deputy Health Minister says more than 65 million people have been screened for COVID-19 infection across the country under a national mobilization scheme to contain the viral disease.
Iran’s Red Crescent Society says it has screened over 20 million Nowruz travellers for COVID-19 during the implementation of a national plan against the coronavirus.
An Iranian official says the social distancing plan was enforced in the Islamic Republic right at the time when the coronavirus was first detected in the country.