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.
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).
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Biotechnology Development Headquarters of Iran’s Vice Presidency for Science and Technology has announced that two basic knowledge-based projects have been submitted for the production of Iranian diagnostic kits since the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in the country.