A virology journal has retracted a paper detailing the first human trials of an Iran-made vaccine against the COVID-19 virus following criticism from scientists questioning the efficacy of the vaccine.
A former official in Iran's Covid Taskforce says the country’s Covid deaths were nearly twice the figures authorities reported for the first two years of the pandemic.
A team of medical experts in a damning report claim that over 75,000 Covid deaths could have been prevented in Iran if the regime had permitted global vaccines.
A group of 16 female political prisoners have issued a statement to decry the crowded prison wards and the dire health conditions in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.
Amid a resurgence of covid-19 pandemic and the growing fatalities in Iran, mourning ceremonies of the Islamic month of Muharram were held with no restrictions, except for the Supreme Leader.
Iran's daily Covid deaths have risen alarmingly once again as many fear that upcoming religious ceremonies may lead to another crisis similar to August 2021.
While health authorities in Iran have announced the seventh wave of Covid-19 pandemic, the government organized a “10-kilometer-long” ceremony to celebrate a religious holiday in Tehran.
While cholera is spreading in western Iran there are reports of deadly outbreaks of the disease in Afghanistan and Iraq, raising concerns of a regional pandemic.
The growing number of Covid-19 patients in Iran has prompted the Health Ministry to announce new restrictions in the country while several provinces are deemed "red zones.”
Iran’s homegrown Covid vaccine factories are shutting down for lack of demand as many vaccinated with foreign vaccines refuse to get homegrown ones as boosters.
As Iran’s Health Ministry announced that the number of people hospitalized due to Covid-19 complications have tripled, new variants are about to sweep across the country.
A group of lawyers and civil rights activists who had filed a lawsuit against Iran’s Supreme Leader for "Covid mismanagement" were given harsh sentences, their attorney said on Monday.
Iranian nurses are outraged over recent remarks by President Ebrahim Raisi who said that during the Covid-19 pandemic, Basijis and Islamic scholars taught doctors and nurses how to serve the people.
The trial of five activists who had filed a lawsuit against Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for "Covid mismanagement" was held behind closed doors Saturday.
The spokesman for Iran’s Covid-19 taskforce says the country is ready to send medical personnel and vaccines to China if needed.
While Iran’s national carrier, Iran Air says Iraq does not allow entry to visitors who have received Iranian-made Covid-19 vaccines, the Interior Ministry says it is not aware of such a restriction.
The number of deaths in Iran since Covid-19 began has been 300,000 higher than previous years, suggesting pandemic deaths may be more than officially reported.
In an unexpected move, Iran's Judiciary has accepted a lawsuit against the Supreme Leader and others for delay in mass vaccination and thousands of preventable deaths.
Iran is enduring its sixth wave of infections by the Covid-19 as the daily death roll reached 227 on Wednesday, with 70 in Tehran.
Iran is returning about 820,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines donated to the country by Poland presumably because they were made in the United States.
Despite the highly contagious Covid-19 Omicron variant spreading fast across Iran, President Ebrahim Raisi has rejected proposals for a nationwide shutdown.
The Iranian parliament has suspended its public sessions because at least 47 lawmakers have come down with Covid-19 while about a dozen have been hospitalized.
As another Covid-19 wave hit Iran in January, reports say that over 30 members of parliament have contracted the coronavirus and up to ten are hospitalized.
The health ministry reported Iran's first three deaths from the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant on Saturday as the number of infections increased.
The coronavirus Omicron variant is fast spreading across Iran, with reports of Covid patient numbers rising from two to five times in some cities.
Iran will reportedly receive $90 million from the World Bank for measures to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, a spokesperson for the organization has said.
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has spread in a dozen Iranian provinces, bringing confirmed cases to 43, the health ministry announced on Thursday.
While Iran says the number of people carrying the highly infectious Omicron variant of the coronavirus is increasing, government travel restrictions seem patchy.
Iran says it has closed all land and sea borders in the southwestern Khuzestan province to reduce the expected spread of the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron.
Iran has begun preparations to deal with the Omicron Covid-19 variant a top health official said Wednesday and added that its impact will be felt next week.
An Iranian health official said Sunday it has detected its first case of infection by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the country.
Iran’s vice president Mohammad Mokhber has revealed that COVID vaccine production equipment was brought into the country using an ambassador’s diplomatic pouch.
Iran’s health minister has warned about the possibility of the new coronavirus variant, Omicron, spreading in the country but did not announce any travel bans.
Iran's parliament will soon consider a report on former president Hassan Rouhani's performance in managing the Covid pandemic, which has claimed 126,000 deaths.
Production of the Fakhravac Covid vaccine, one of eight Iranian inoculations developed by the defense ministry is to stop due to lack of demand as imports grow.
An Iranian official has reiterated on Saturday that there are no plans to import Pfizer Covid vaccines, despite an earlier announcement.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s personal physician Alireza Marandi has told the health minister criticizing plans to hold a “vaccine victory” celebration.