To stem the spread of the virus in crowded jails, Iran's judiciary on Sunday extended furloughs for 100,000 prisoners.
Data collected by Radio Farda show that 66,657 persons have so far been hospitalized or quarantined in 31 provinces of Iran for having Covid-19 symptoms.
Iran’s official government news agency IRNA has reported “clashes” in Hamedan prison, following reports of unrest in other prisons in recent days.
The husband of the jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says his wife has had her temporary release extended for another two weeks by the Iranian government.
The Head of the Epidemiology Committee of Iran's Coronavirus Combat Taskforce on Saturday said coronavirus (SARS-2-CoV) was spreading in Iran without being noticed since around January 20.
A senior official of Iran’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage has said that the cotronavirus epidemic will cost $200 million to the country’s tourism industry in three months.
A representative of fuel distributors in Iran has warned the government that 70 percent of gas stations might soon shut down due to lack of sales.
A Judiciary official of Kordestan Province of Iran on March 28 said seven of the 70 inmates who had broken out of a prison in Saqqez on February 27 have been arrested and two more have surrendered.
The Islamic Republic Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has accused the United States of taking several Iranian scientists hostage.
Iran's Defence Minister Brigadier-General Amir Hatami on March 26 said Iran has upgraded all its missiles and is planning to increase the explosive power of their warheads, speech, and manoeuvrability.
In a letter addressed to Iran's Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi on March 26 Amnesty International said Iranian authorities must "immediately and unconditionally" release hundreds of prisoners of conscience amid grave fears over the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran’s prisons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed at a Group of 20 (G20) video conference that a freeze be placed on economic sanctions to allow countries to better combat the coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 500,000 worldwide and killed nearly 23,000 people.
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