Al-Monitor - Irans deputy health minister warned that the actual numbers of deaths from the coronavirus are higher than what the public is being told. As the country struggles to bring down the high number of coronavirus-related deaths, Irans Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi appeared on national television to show how the country is struggling ...

Tasnim Iranian Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi warned against the rise of dangerous counterfeit drugs across the country as so far no safe and efficacious vaccines have been developed against the viral infection in the world. Fake medicines and supplies are flooding our provinces amid the COVID-19 crisis, Harirchi warned on Friday. He added ...

Reuters - Iran launched a campaign on Saturday to motivate a reluctant public to use face masks as the country faces a sharp increase in infections and deaths from the coronavirus. Iran was one of the worst hit countries early in the pandemic, and since restrictions to stem its spread were gradually lifted from mid-April, cases have increased again,...

Al-Monitor - Iran says coronavirus deaths in the country will continue until there is a vaccine. According to Iranian Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi, the coronavirus continues to spread across several Iranian provinces as normal life resumes in the country. Harirchi, who himself became famous across the world after displaying coronavirus ...

Tasnim Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki said the novel coronavirus outbreak is reaching the containment phase in many parts of the country, calling for strict compliance with the social distancing protocols to defeat the contagious disease. In a televised interview on Tuesday, Namaki said the battle with COVID-19 involves three phases of management,...

IRNA Iran's Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi said on Saturday that the trend of patients infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the capital city of Tehran is declining. In the last few weeks, the number of hospitalized patients, clients, and ICU admissions, as well as deaths from the deadly virus has been decreasing, but the statistics ...

Reuters - Friday prayer gatherings resumed in up to 180 Iranian cities and towns seen as only at low risk of coronavirus contagion after a two-month suspension, state media reported. The resumption of mass prayers which remained banned in the capital Tehran and some other major cities - followed the reopening on Monday of 132 mosques in areas consistently ...

Financial Tribune - Iran registered its largest single-day drop in COVID-19 infections since April 9 on Saturday, which brought its tally of daily cases to its lowest since March 9. According to data compiled by the Health Ministry, Iran reported 802 new infections in a 24-hour period, down by 204 from a day before, bringing the national total ...

Financial Tribune - The national coronavirus taskforce is planning to make wearing facemasks mandatory in public transportation, including buses and subway, a deputy health minister said. Speaking to ISNA, Iraj Harirchi added that there are yet some incongruencies in the decision, but these safety measures must be taken in crowded places like ...

Press TV - Iran's Health Ministry says the country is witnessing a declining trend in the number of fatalities and cases of new coronavirus infections as a result of bilateral cooperation between the people and the government. Iraj Harirchi, the deputy minister of health, announced in Tehran Saturday that more than 50 percent of coronavirus cases,...

Tasnim An Iranian deputy minister of health cautioned that the novel coronavirus outbreak could reach a new peak again all over the world. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Iraj Harirchi said nowhere in the world is immune from a new coronavirus peak. Until further notice, the second, third and umpteenth peak is quite probable in the entire ...

Financial Tribune - A senior health official says the current strategy of Iran, like many other countries, is to lower COVID-19 cases and deaths until a vaccine or a treatment is made available. A health official warned that the coronavirus pandemic will pick up again in autumn, as Iran registers a decline in the numbers of confirmed cases and ...

Press TV - Irans deputy health minister says the rate of newinfections from the new coronavirus has been declining across most of the country's31 provinces. "In sixprovinces, the trend of coronavirus infection has had anupward movementand in some provinces, including Isfahan, it has not increased or decreased significantly and has moved in a straight ...

Reuters - A senior Iranian health official said the greater Tehran area may face a coronavirus resurgence after many residents flouted advisories to stay home, crowding streets and causing traffic jams across the city as the countrys New Year holidays ended on Saturday. Iran - the Middle East country worst-hit by the epidemic -said earlier on Saturday ...

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 ...

MNA Iran deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi has recovered from the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, according to a statement on Thursday. Harirchi had announced in a video on February 25 that he had tested positive for COVID-19, adding that he had entered isolation and started treatment, but said his general health condition was favorable,...

Bloomberg | Arsalan Shahla, Golnar Motevalli and Marc Champion: Iran is dealing with one of the worlds worst outbreaks of the new coronavirus, and the disease was quick to reach the top ranks of the government. Four current and former Iranian officials have died so far from coronavirus: a member of the Expediency Council that advises 80-year-old Supreme ...

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 ...

Reuters - Irans deputy health minister has tested positive for coronavirus, the semi-official news agency ILNA reported on Tuesday. The spokesman for Irans health ministry confirmed in an interview with state television that Deputy Minister Iraj Harirchi has been infected and is now under quarantine. (Reporting by Babak Dehghanpisheh; Editing ...

MNA Rejecting the requests of quarantine some cities in Iran due to the coronavirus, Deputy Minister of Ministry of Health and Medical Education Iraj Harirchi said, We do not agree on quarantine at all. Referring to the statements made by a member of Irans Parliament regarding the death of 50 people in Qom due to coronavirus, Harirchi rejected ...