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.
Almost 7,100 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in Iran in the past 24 hours, marking a rapid upward trajectory in the daily caseloads, as the country experiences its seventh wave of the pandemic.
The daily death toll from the Coronavirus in Iran has become double-digit again. The Iranian health ministry announced on Sunday that 13 people died of the disease in the past 24 hours.
The Covid daily death toll in Iran has once again become single-digit. The Iranian health ministry on Saturday said 9 people died of the disease over the past 24 hours.
Iran’s health minister says the ministry under his command has received the permission to inject the Noora vaccine as a booster for other coronavirus vaccines.
The daily death toll from the Coronavirus in Iran has become double-digit again. The Iranian health ministry said on Friday that 13 people died of the disease in the past 24 hours.
Iran’s Health Minister Bahram Einollahi says the country has entered a seventh wave of infections with Covid-19, warning that the coronavirus pandemic is still far from over.
The COVID-19 pandemic is resurging in Iran, as the newest variant of the coronavirus spreads, several months after the contagion had effectively died down.
A top Iranian infectious diseases specialist has warned of an uptick in the number of coronavirus cases in Iran, blaming lax health protocols for the surge.
The number of daily Covid deaths in Iran has become double-digit with figures released by the Iranian health ministry on Sunday showing 10 people had died of the virus in the past 24 hours. This is while the death toll on Saturday was 2.
The head of Iran’s national taskforce against coronavirus has sounded the alarm over a rising number of people seeking medical assistance for Covid-19, advising the public to go for a booster shot to bolster their immune system against the disease.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said all passengers entering the country from abroad via the land, air and sea borders must test negative for Covid-19.
The spokesman for Iran’s national taskforce for fighting Covid-19 has said the body has decided to make wearing mask in open and closed places mandatory in red and orange zones.
Four Iranian cities are back in the “red” or “high risk” state on the country’s color-coded Covid-19 tracking map, amid a rise in the number of infections with coronavirus across the country.
Health experts in the US and abroad have found that the coronavirus variant currently responsible for most infections in the US, Omicron BA.5, can quickly reinfect people who have protection against the virus.
An Iranian virologist says the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron, a coronavirus strain, which are currently in the early stages of circulation in Iran, have undergone many changes compared to previous sub-strains and more studies are needed to determine how the virus will exactly behave.
The Iranian health ministry figures on Thursday showed that 1,775 people had tested positive for the disease in the past 24 hours. This shows the number of Covid infections is steadily soaring in Iran.
The Iranian ministry of health says some cases of Omicron subvariant BA.5 have been detected in Iran, warning it can become the dominant strain of Covid-19 virus and trigger a new outbreak in the country.
Iran’s Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute says the production line of its Cov Pars vaccine against COVID-19 has been shut down after the Health Ministry reneged on a pledge to buy millions of doses of the pre-ordered product.
A new wave of the Covid-19 outbreak is on its way, Iranian medical experts have warned, blaming lax health protocols for the surge in the number of cases.
