Iran’s ministry of health has announced that 12,729 people have tested positive for coronavirus as of Saturday March 14. Also, with 97 new deaths since yesterday, the epidemic's toll in Iran has reached 611.
The extent of the coronavirus epidemic in Mashhad, Iran's second largest city, has forced the clerical establishment to shut its revered shrine.
General Mohammad Baqeri, Chief of the joint staff of the Iranian armed forces says his troops are planning to make sure that the people will leave roads and supermarkets in 24 hours.
U.S. air strikes that killed several members of a pro-Iranian militia group in Iraq have heightened tensions in the region, with Baghdad denouncing the attack as an aggression against the country and Tehran warning President Donald Trump against taking "dangerous actions."
Many Iranians hold Mahan Air, believed to be under the direct control of the Revolutionary Guard and a source of funding for its activities, responsible for the coronavirus crisis in the country and enjoying support that overrules the government's decisions.
Despite the coronavirus crisis Iranian security forces and Judiciary continue the persecution of political dissidents, activists and critics and ill-treatment of prisoners with great zeal.
The spread of coronavirus in Iran is still an ascending slope and there is no sign of a decline in the number of cases or the death toll.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has included Iran among the twenty worst digital predators in 2020 in a list published to mark this year's World Day Against Cyber-Censorship.
After a lot of criticism that Iran's president Rouhani has been absent from the scene, the Supreme Leader appointed him to head coronavirus task force.
The latest coronavirus statistics announced by Iran's Health Ministry on March 11 indicates a 3.9 percent fatality rate, still higher than the world average but more realistic.
At least a quarter of Iran's oil rigs are out of action as U.S. sanctions strangle the Islamic Republic's vital oil industry, according to a Reuters review of financial documents and industry sources, dealing a potentially long-term blow to its oil industry.
The number of Iranian patients infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) soared during the past day and reached 8,042, and the official death toll climbed to 291.
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