Iranian Health Ministry announced that 60,251,217 Iranians have received the first dose, 52,974,192 people the second dose and 11,745,289 people the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine or the booster. During the 24 hours, 451,568 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the country. This is while the daily infection rate has decreased sharply recently as more […]

As of 19:50 Moscow time on December 28, as many as 280,119,931 novel coronavirus cases and 5,403,662 coronavirus-associated deaths were registered across the globe. The number of confirmed cases grew by 445,944 over the past day and the number of fatalities increased by 4,501, TASS reported. The WHO statistics are based on officially confirmed data […]

Saturday’s tally marked the third consecutive day that numbers have reached record highs, Al-Jazeera reported. They come ahead of a video-conference meeting Monday in which President Emmanuel Macron and key members of his government will discuss new COVID-19 safety measures. Officials are concerned about the effect of the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. Already […]

Dr. Kamal Heidari, Deputy Minister of Health said that as many as 85 countries have reported cases infected with the newly detect Covid-19 variant, adding that a case for the first time in Iran was detected in a laboratory in the country. The deputy health minister said that the National Task Force For Fighting Coronavirus […]

TEHRAN – Iran has announced readiness to continue cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) in strengthening and expanding traditional medicine and medicinal plants at the international level, Arman Zargaran, an advisor to the traditional medicine office at the Ministry of Health, has said. Zargaran described Iran’s capabilities and capacities in the field of traditional […]

TEHRAN – The Vice Presidency for Science and Technology aims to help large companies and startups develop markets for products by launching eight new biotechnology accelerators. Since 2016, the process of creating bio-accelerators started to pace up with the support of the Biotechnology Development Headquarters of the Vice President for Science and Technology, and there […]

Diabetes is a chronic disease that may involve all people from any age range. There are different types of diabetes, the type that seniors usually get involved in type 2 diabetes. Despite type 1 diabetes, called juvenile diabetes, type 2 diabetes occurs due to a bad lifestyle and obesity. It means that type 2 diabetes […]

TEHRAN – The instructions for the use of Iranian traditional medicine to treat COVID-19 have been prepared, the director of the Iranian Medicine Office of the Ministry of Health, has announced. This instruction has been compiled in the Iranian Medicine Committee of the National Scientific Committee, it was reviewed by the specialists in conventional medicine, […]

TEHRAN – Over 8.5 percent of the total health expenditures of the country are spent on diabetes, Baqer Larijani, head of the Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, has stated. “Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) kill 41 million people each year, equivalent to 71 percent of all deaths globally. Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and respiratory diseases are the […]

TEHRAN – Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz, head of the Iranian Food and Drug Administration, has said that not any number of Pfizer vaccines have been imported to the country so far, ISNA reported on Friday. So, any vaccine sold under Pfizer in the open market is counterfeit, he emphasized. Pfizer Public Relations even announced in a […]

TEHRAN – Those people who have injected a coronavirus vaccine can also donate their blood and there are no obstacles in this regard, Bashir Haji-Beigi, the Blood Transfusion Organization spokesman, said on Saturday. People who have received AstraZeneca and Sputnik vaccines can donate blood 28 days after vaccination, he said, adding, but those who have […]

TEHRAN – Kayhan Azadmanesh, a medical doctor and biotechnologist who is head of the virology research division at the Pasteur Institute of Iran in Tehran, has said the country hopes to defeat the coronavirus pandemic with a homegrown crop of vaccines We can’t rely on help from the international community with the pandemic. We are […]