Healthcare

The coronavirus outbreak has forced an Iranian traveller to cut short his trip around the world on camel.

An Iranian official says the homegrown diagnostic kits for the novel coronavirus will come onto the market in the next Iranian month (March 20 - April 19).

Iran has granted furloughs to approximately 70,000 prisoners due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

The novel Coronavirus has claimed the lives of two more Iranian politicians.

Iran’s Health Ministry says the number of Coronavirus infections has risen to 7,161, including 237 deaths so far.

Dozens of people have been killed or poisoned after consuming fake alcoholic drinks for protection against the novel Coronavirus.

Chief of Iran’s Crisis Management Organization Ali Najjar has quarantined himself after testing positive for the COVID-19, says the spokesman for the organization.

Iran has announced that the number of Coronavirus infections has increased to 6,566, while 2,134 people have recovered so far.

Iran has cancelled the Nowruz international celebrations which were to be held in Kurdistan province due to the outbreak of Coronavirus in the Islamic Republic and the region.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blasted the world’s silence over the United States’ “medical terrorism” against the Islamic Republic amid an outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has urged the public to be careful and avoid unnecessary commuting and travelling amid concerns about the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus in the country, which has so far killed 145 and infected over 5,000 others.

Iran’s minister of information and communications technology says the country’s Internet Service Providers will provide their clients with 100 Gigabytes of internet in the face of the novel Coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Iran says the number of Coronavirus infections has increased to 5,823, and 1669 have recovered from the disease.

Fatemeh Rahbar, a conservative politician who had recently been elected as one of the 30 representatives of Tehran in the Iranian Parliament, has died of COVID-19.

Iran's Health Ministry has confirmed 1,234 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, inclusing 17 new deatha.

Researchers at the Ardabil Science and Technology Park in north-west of Iran have succeeded in designing and building a robot that can replace nurses.

World Health Organisation representatives have hailed Iran's fight against the novel coronavirus, saying the world would learn from Iran’s experiences in the fight against coronavirus.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reiterated his call for global and regional cooperation against the novel coronavirus, saying the entire world is on the same boat in this battle.

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Jaber Al-Sabah says his country is prepared to assist Iran in its fight against the novel coronavirus, which has so far killed over 100 and infected over 3,000 in the Islamic Republic.

Hossein Sheikholeslam, a former advisor to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the country's ex-ambassador to Syria, has died of the novel Coronavirus.

Chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) says the coronavirus might be the result of a biological attack by the United States.

Iran’s Health Minister says the National Mobilisation Campaign against Corona has begun at three or four places with the highest rate of infection as of Thursday.

Iran's Health Ministry says 739 people have recovered from the novel Coronavirus, that has so far killed over 100 and infected more than 3,000 in Iran.

A national campaign is getting underway in Iran to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Head of Iran’s Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences says one of the university’s research centres has managed to produce a drug for the novel coronavirus, and the medicine is currently undergoing clinical trials.