Financial Tribune - The resurgence of the novel coronavirus in southwest Iran has forced authorities to reintroduce stringent measures, warning that other regions could follow if social distancing rules are ignored. Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raeisi told reporters on Monday that what is happening in Khuzestan Province, where several counties ...

Press TV - Iran's Health Ministry says the country has screened more than 10 million people for the new coronavirussymptoms as it goes all out against the outbreak. Speaking on Sunday, Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raeisi said the screening had been carried out over a span of four days. 6.5 million individuals were screened at health centers, ...

Press TV - Iranian health authorities have dismissed reports that a new coronavirus outbreak that began in China and infected thousands of people, including some in other parts of the world, has spread tothe country. Alireza Raeisi, an Iranian deputy health minister, said on Saturday that a suspected case detected earlier in the day in an unidentified ...

Financial Tribune - The Health Ministry has slammed the Iranian Tobacco Planning and Supervision Center's recent approval of new cigarette and tobacco brands. The center, affiliated to the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade, recently issued permits for 15 new cigarette brands and 30 new tobacco brands, requested by 28 tobacco companies. Deputy ...

MNA Deputy health minister says as many as 56 people have died of a flue in Iran this fall. Alireza Reisi, Deputy Health Minister, said on Sunday that since the start of fall as many as 56 people have lost their lives after the outbreak of a kind of flu across Iran. Reisi said that only over the past week, 273 people have been admitted to hospital ...

Tasnim An Iranian deputy health minister announced that the country will inaugurate a nuclear emergency medical center in the southern port city of Bushehr in the first half of the next Iranian year, which will begin on March 21. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Alireza Raeesi said because of the nuclear power plant constructed in the capital of ...

IFP - Iranian mothers lined up at maternity wards on 7/7/1397 in the Iranian calendar (September 29, 2018) to give birth to their infants on that certain date despite dangers of delivering babies prematurely. The date 7/7/1397 was one of the busiest days for delivery at hospitals as were similar dates like 6/6/96 (August 28, 2017) and 5/5/95 ...