In a tweet on Wednesday, March 25, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted the Islamic Republic for expelling the Paris-based Doctors Without Borders.
Iran's Deputy Health Minister said coronavirus spread in Qom by Chinese workers and students, and in Gilan by Iranian students coming back from Wuhan.
Speaking on the side-lines of a meeting of cabinet ministers and President Rouhani on March 25, Iran's Central Bank (CBI) Governor said that part of Iran's frozen assets may be released soon to enable the country to deal with the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic.
The official number of coronavirus victims in Iran reached 2,077 on Wednesday, March 25, the health ministry spokesman announced.
The Spokesman of Iran's Cabinet Ali Rabiee on March 25 said the government will soon impose lockdowns to contain the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic.
Doctors Without Borders expressed deep surprise in a statement March 24 after Iranian Health Ministry officials put a stop to its plans to launch a 50-bed intensive care field hospital in Isfahan for COVID-19 victims.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on March 24 urged the international community to urgently re-evaluate any sanctions imposed on countries such as Iran that to prevent their healthcare systems to collapse.
A prosecutor in Iran's northern city of Anzali on March 23 said an arrest warrant has been issued for a self-confessed "Islamic doctor". The cleric put the lives of several coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) patients and the public in danger by administering to them a "miracle cure".
A street funeral procession held for a former Revolutionary Guard Commander in a township near Tehran on March 23 which brought thousands of people together despite government pleas to observe social distancing has outraged many Iranians.
The EU on Monday urged the international community to send humanitarian aid to Iran to help its coronavirus fight, arguing that such steps would not breach US sanctions.
South Korean foreign ministry announced March 22 that Seoul is exploring ways to provide humanitarian assistance to Iran to fight the coronavirus epidemic.
The U.S. Department of State has strongly refuted Khamenei's repetition of allegations that the United States created the coronavirus.
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