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The number of Covid cases has decreased sharply in Iran. Health Ministry figures on Friday showed that 3,690 people had tested positive for Covid in the past 24 hours.
The head of Iran’s Coronavirus Taskforce Committee says some 1,800 coronavirus patients are currently being hospitalized in Tehran province hospitals, 562 of whom are receiving special care treatment.
Iranian health officials have sounded the alarm at a surge in the cases of infection with cholera and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) across the country.
A top Iranian epidemiologist says the Omicron BA.5 subvariant of the Covid-19 has put the brakes on the weeks-long diminishing trend in coronavirus-hit cases in Iran, dashing hopes that the seventh wave of the disease is over.
Iranian lawmakers have been satisfied with the health minister’s explanations about the health ministry’s plan to make Covid-19 vaccine compulsory across the nation.
Covid deaths and infections are decreasing in Iran with the health ministry figures on Saturday showing that the disease has killed 55 over the previous 24 hours.
The Iranian Health Ministry revises down the number of cities classified as ‘red’ on the country’s color-coded map tracking Covid-19 from 130 to 78, signaling a slowdown in the spread of the coronavirus across Iran.
An Iranian health official says the latest wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Iran may be at its peak and daily caseloads could hopefully start to plunge soon.
Iran’s Health Ministry confirms 90 more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic over the past 24 hours as the national taskforce against the Coronavirus warns the country is quickly moving toward a new peak in infections.
62 cholera-infected cases have been identified in Iran, almost all of them in Western provinces and two-thirds of them male, an official with the Iranian health ministry reported.
An Iranian health official says the country will reach the peak of the seventh wave of infections with coronavirus in around two weeks, predicting a further rise in the number of patients and fatalities.
An Iranian health official says that six out of the nine cities in Tehran Province are on red alert due to a high rate of infections with coronavirus there, but that the number of fatalities remain “very low” during the seventh wave despite the highly speedy spread of Covid-19.
