October 4, The Iran Project - Despite inhumane US sanctions during the past years, officials of the city of Qom put their focus on prompting urban diplomacy, cultural activities, international and religious discourse in order to lift the position of the holy city as a Shia hub to a Shia cosmopolis. Multiple titles are attributed to Qom city, but ...

MNA |�Mehdi Bakhshi: People of Qom participated in a ceremony at the shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh on Sunday night to mark the birth anniversary of the seventh Shia Imam, Musa ibn Ja'far al-Kadhim (PBUH). The ceremony was held with anti-COVID19 health protocols in place.�      

ISNA | Ahmad Zohrabi: The mourning ceremony of the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Jafar Sadiq (PBUH), the sixth Imam of Shi'ite world, was held in Qom. Imam Sadiq attained martyrdom on the 25th Shawwal 14 A.H. Attendants of the ceremony observe health protocols in order to avoid the spread of the lethal coronavirus.     ...

ISNA | Mohammad Mohsenzadeh: Heavy rainfall has flooded many streets in Qom and caused damage to some vehicles and increased the water level in Qom River and caused an overflow in some parts.      

Tasnim Iranian President Hassan Rouhani highlighted the major role of the country's medical staff in containing the coronavirus epidemic and said undoubtedly, the people will make it through these tough days together. In a telephone conversation with the president of Qom University of Medical Sciences on Tuesday, Rouhani was briefed on the latest ...

AP | JON GAMBRELL: Appearing before the cameras coughing and sweating profusely, the man leading Irans response to the new coronavirus outbreak promised it was of no danger to his country. Quarantines belong to the Stone Age, Iraj Harirchi insisted. A day later, he himself would be in quarantine from the virus. Harirchis story is a microcosm ...

The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Irans Revolutionary Guards are to clear streets, shops and public places in the country within the next 24 hours, in a dramatic escalation of efforts to combat the spread of coronavirus. The near-curfew follows growing exasperation among MPs that calls for Iranian citizens to stay at home had been widely ignored, as ...

IRNA -- Emergency Director of the Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Eastern Mediterranean Richard Brennan on Sunday described management of coronavirus in Iran as following the right path, saying that Qom enjoys the capacity to overcome coronavirus. Talking to reporters in Qom's University Medical Sciences, he described ...

March 5, The Iran Project - Earlier, Qom's headquarters of Crisis management in a statement on Thursday announced the closure of all offices, schools, universities, banks on Saturday &March 7), but later they decided to cancel it due to unknown reasons. Since the weekend holiday in Iran is on Fridays and the next Sunday (March 8) is a religious ...

AP - A fire erupted in a residential building in the Iranian city of Qom before dawn on Friday, killing at least five people, including a 2-year-old, and injuring 38, Irans state TV reported. The report did not say what caused the blaze at the 228-apartment building in the holy city of Qom. It said two men and two women died of smoke inhalation ...

Al-Monitor - Iran is closer to an effective shutdown amid a worsening coronavirus epidemic that was first reported last Wednesday in the city of Qom, the center of its powerful clergy and home to much-visited holy shrines. As of Feb. 25, the official death toll from the countrys Health Ministry stood at 15, a figure likely to jump as suspected cases ...

The Guardian | Martin Chulov and Mohammed Rasool: Shrine city of Qom believed to be virus hub, as concern grows for regions refugee population Fears are growing across the Middle East that coronavirus has infiltrated a main pilgrimage route, which could lead the deadly pathogen to vulnerable refugee populations, causing perhaps unprecedented public ...

Al-Monitor - Irans Interior Minister Abdulreza Rahmanifazli said that the coronavirus outbreak may have contributed to record low participation rates in Irans Feb. 21 parliamentary elections. It was one of the first official acknowledgements that the virus, which originated in China, is impacting the country. During the Feb. 21 press conference,...

ISNA | Ahmad Zohrabi: Given the outbreak of coronavirus in the religious city of Qom and for the prevention of spread of this deadly disease, buses and public transportation vehicles are disinfected with detergents and disinfectants every night at Qom Central Bus Terminal according to the instruction of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education....

AP A staggering 50 people have died in the Iranian city of Qom from the new coronavirus this month, a lawmaker was quoted as saying on Monday, even as the Health Ministry insisted only 12 deaths have been recorded to date in the country. The new death toll reported by the Qom representative, Ahmad Amiriabadi Farahani, is significantly higher than ...

Reuters - Iran has confirmed 15 new cases of the new coronavirus, taking the total to 43 with a death toll of eight. Most of the infections have been in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Qom. The virus came from China to Qom city. A Merchant from Qom who died of the virus used to regularly travel to China ... Flights were suspended between the two ...

Tasnim - Iranian clerics and ordinary people residing in the holy city of Qom have taken part in the parliamentary elections, despite fears of coronavirus epidemic. The new coronavirus cases in Qom have not dissuaded people from going to the polling stations in the holy city. However, a new decree issued by Irans Election Headquarters has obviated ...

Reuters - Two Iranians have died in hospital after testing positive for the new coronavirus in the holy Shiite city of Qom, the head of the citys University of Medical Sciences told Mehr news agency on Wednesday. Two Iranians, who tested positive earlier today for new coronavirus, died of respiratory illness, the official told Mehr. Irans health ...

Reuters - Preliminary tests on two suspected coronavirus cases in Iran have come back positive, a health ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, according to the official IRNA news agency. The cases were in the city of Qom and the patients have been put in isolation, he said. The next tests for examining the certainty of the issue are being conducted ...

ISNA - On the anniversary of people of Qom's January 9, 1978 uprising, thousands of people from Qom met with Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Wednesday.