Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has urged the entire nation to take the novel coronavirus seriously ahead of the Persian New Year holidays, vowing that the government is working hard to minimise the COVID-19’s tolls on the people’s lives.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has assumed the chairmanship of the national taskforce on combatting the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus, replacing the Health Minister at the request of lawmakers.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has agreed to a proposal to consider as “martyrs” medical personnel who have lost their lives in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak in Iran, which has one of the highest numbers of infections outside China.
Iran’s main airline Homa, known internationally as IranAir, will resume flights to Europe after a four-day hiatus that came because of unspecified restrictions by European authorities.
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran has provided an explanation for the country’s stamp-free visa policy, urging Saudi Arabia to avoid politicizing the coronavirus disease.
Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari says reliance on the creativity of the younger generation, the potential of domestic knowledge-based companies, and the homegrown innovation and technology ecosystem will help the county overcome the coronavirus crisis.
Iran’s Parliament Speaker has called for universal intervention to lift inhumane US sanctions against the Islamic Republic in the face of the Coronavirus outbreak.
The Iranian ambassador to Moscow has announced that Russia will provide Iran with 50,000 coronavirus diagnosis kits and the batch will be sent to the country as soon as possible.
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Tuesday, March 10, 2020, and picked headlines from 11 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Iranian scientists have fabricated an alginate fibrous wound dressing with antibacterial and wound healing properties that can decrease disruption of red blood cells in the wound bed.
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Seyyed Abbas Mousavi says the first group of Bahraini citizens who had been stranded in Iran following the outbreak of coronavirus has returned home under the auspices of the Sultanate of Oman.
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).
Iranian researchers at a science and technology park in the southern city of Kerman have manufactured a wearable wristband that saves the life of swimmers in the absence of a lifeguard.
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.
IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Monday, March 9, 2020, and picked headlines from 13 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani says cooperation and tolerance is required on the part of political groups and ethnic and religious factions in Iraq so that a government growing from the will of Iraqi people “will take over as soon as possible.”
