The latest news about Coronavirus outbreak in Iran, including the latest death toll, number of COVID-19 infections, the number of recovered patients, and the measures taken by the government to contain the disease.
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.
Covid’s daily death toll in Iran hit a new high in weeks. The Iranian health ministry figures on Thursday showed that 81 Iranians died of the virus in the past 24 hours.
Iran’s health ministry has confirmed 75 Coronaviurs deaths over the past 24 hours, raising the total fatalities from the pandemic in the country, so far, to 142,209 people.
The number of Covid cases keeps soaring in Iran. The Iranian health ministry figures on Monday showed that 9,699 more people had tested positive for the Coronavirus in the previous 24 hours.
Iran is witnessing a new surge in coronavirus cases with an analysis by the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) showing an average 360 people have been infected with the virus and two people have died every hour over the past ten days.
Figures show the death toll from Covid-19 is soaring in 23 Iranian provinces, while there has been a rise in the number of hospitalizations in 30 other provinces, as the country is in the midst of a seventh wave of infections with coronavirus.
Iran’s health minister has asked the nation to follow health protocols to stem the outbreak of the Omicron BA.5 sub-strains, which as he said, spreads 18 times faster than other variants.
The daily death toll from Covid in Iran has hit a record high in several months with the health ministry’s announcement on Tuesday showing 41 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Almost 10,000 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in Iran in the past 24 hours, as the country is experiencing its seventh wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
The number of Covid deaths keeps rising in Iran. The health ministry figures on Sunday showed 34 people had died of the virus in the previous 24 hours.
An Iranian health official says the new sub-variants of the Omicron strain of coronavirus, BA.4, and BA.5, are resistant to vaccines and are much more transmissible compared to the previous versions.
26 people in Iran succumbed to Covid-19 infection and 6,921 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, according to the tally by the Iranian health ministry on Saturday.
