The fast-spreading coronavirus has killed at least 210 people across Iran, the BBC's Persian service reported on Friday, citing hospital sources, far more than reported by the Health Ministry which put the number at 34.
World Health Organization Director-General on February 28 said a total of 97 cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) have been exported from Iran to 11 countries.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday the United States has offered to help with the coronavirus response in Iran.
In a Twitter post on February 28 the Austrian envoy to Tehran said a member of the Austrian delegation that visited Tehran last week and was suspected of COVID-19 (coronavirus) infection has been cleared by medical tests.
An Iranian businessman says the country is basically cut off from international banking as a result of being put on FATF's blacklist.
The Islamic Republic's first ambassador to Vatican, 81-year old cleric Hadi Khosroshahi, has died of coronavirus in Iran, local media reported.
A new Swiss payment mechanism allowing food, medicine and other humanitarian aid to be sent to Iran without stumbling over US sanctions has officially taken effect, Bern said Thursday.
An Austrian newspaper on February 27 reported that a member of the Austrian Foreign Ministry delegation that visited Tehran on February 22 has contracted COVID-19 (coronavirus) and been quarantined in a Vienna hospital.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei released a taped video statement February 27, responding to the coronavirus crisis in the country, thanking officials and healthcare workers.
In a statement published on February 27, Iran's exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi said the Islamic Republic must immediately free all political prisoners, including the November protesters, to protect them from contracting coronavirus (COVID-19).
Under heavy pressure from teachers and parents, Iran's Health Ministry is closing all schools across Iran for a week.
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