Health and Hygiene

Radiozamaneh – Over the past two months, poverty, unemployment, and labor protests have spread throughout Iran as the covid-19 numbers are rising and making the situation worse for those workers who have lost jobs as well as those who still have jobs. Zamaneh Media’s 14th bimonthly Labor Rights Newsletter covers covid-19 related unemployment, delayed wages, and labor protests which occurred …

(AP) — As coronavirus infections reached new heights in Iran this month, overwhelming its hospitals and driving up its death toll, the country’s health minister gave a rare speech criticizing his own government’s refusal to enforce basic health measures. “We asked for fines to be collected from anyone who doesn’t wear a mask,” Saeed Namaki said last week, referring to …

Iran-HRM – Another child committed suicide in Iran, due to poverty and not having a smartphone to participate in online classes. The news of a young girl committing suicide for not having a smartphone circulated in the social media on October 20, 2020. Parastoo Jalili Azar, 13, lived in Talatappeh village near Urmia, capital of the W. Azerbaijan Province, northwestern …

RFL/RE – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has urged the authorities to prioritize public health above any economic or security concerns as the Middle East’s hardest-hit country battles a third wave of the coronavirus outbreak. Iran’s death toll from COVID-19 topped 32,000 this week. “We must do everything” to reduce the number of deaths, Khamenei said, adding that health …

VOA – The wife of a jailed Iranian dissident has criticized Iran’s government for refusing to grant her husband a single day of sick leave in his 14 months of detention despite his multiple ailments and risk of coronavirus exposure in prison. In an interview with VOA Persian from her home in Mashhad this week, Sedigheh Maliki-Fard said her husband, …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s health ministry on Friday reported a record 6,134 new coronavirus cases for the previous 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 556,891 in the Middle East’s hardest-hit country. For more coronavirus news, visit our dedicated page. Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told state TV that 335 people had died from the disease in the past 24 hours, bringing …

Al-Monitor – At a meeting of the anti-coronavirus task force today, President Hassan Rouhani said that Tehran would be facing new restrictions. Rouhani praised the efforts of the various agencies working over the last eight months to combat the virus. He said that only 50% of government employees will report to work in the province of Tehran, one of the hardest-hit provinces in the country. …

Radiofarda -A widespread protest is underway on Persian social media against the shortage of insulin in Iran. A widespread protest is underway on Persian social media against the shortage of insulin in Iran. Eight months have passed since pharmacies in Iran have run out of insulin pens. The lack of response from government officials prompted social media users to circulate …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Nasrin Sotoudeh was transferred to Qarchak Prison in Varamin from Evin Prison this morning under the pretext of being taken to a medical centre. This is while “according to (medical) experts she should have been taken to the hospital for immediate heart examinations and angiographic surgery.” According to Iran Human Rights (IHR), this morning, October …

Al-Arabia – Iran recorded on Tuesday 5,039 new daily coronavirus cases, the highest since the pandemic began, according to the country’s Ministry of Health.