Friday , 29 March 2024

Health and Hygiene

Coronavirus Ravaging Prisons in Iran, Human Rrights Group Says

Radiofarda – The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran (ABC), an international human rights organization, has accused Iran of hiding facts about the dire conditions in prisons across Iran amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic. The ABC’s new report, published on Wednesday, September 2, on its website, is based on testimonies presented by dozens of inmates, attorneys, and informed …

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Drastic Changes In Diets Of Iranian Households

Radiofarda – A new report by the Islamic Republic’s National Nutrition & Food Technology Research Institute (NNFTRI) shows that many Iranian families have either drastically reduced eating red meat, chicken and fish, eggs, and dairy products or eliminated them entirely from their dinner tables. NNFTRI’s research was conducted in the second quarter of 2020 and included more than 22,000 urban …

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Iran prepares for a third wave of coronavirus outbreak

Even as the number of coronavirus deaths has fallen in the last few weeks, Iranian officials are warning that the country will soon witness a third wave. According to Health Ministry spokesperson Sima Sadat Lari, Iran had almost 2,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total documented infections in the country to 380,000. Also in the last 24 hours, …

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294 Foreign Nationals Died Of Covid-19 In Iran According To Deputy Interior Minister

Radiofarad – Iranian Deputy Interior Minister Hossein Zolfaqari says COVID-19 has infected 2,852 foreign nationals in Iran, and that 294 of them have died of the virus. Speaking on Tuesday, September 1, Zolfaqari cited the country’s measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus by the visitors and refugees, saying an average of 672,000 illegal foreign nationals in Iran are “deported …

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Iran Political Prisoners Warn Authorities About COVID Breakout In Prison

Radiofarda – In an open letter, sixty political prisoners warned on Sunday about a COVID-19 breakout in several wards of Fashafuyeh Prison of Tehran. In their letter, addressed to the Prosecutor of Tehran, the signatories said that the coronavirus has spread through several wards of one of the prison halls, and that the threat of illness is causing great anxiety …

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Iran Students To Start School Except In ‘Red Zones’ Next Week Amid COVID Fears

Radiofarda – Mohsen Haji-Mirzai, Iran’s Minister of Education, said on Monday that students will start school in all areas around the nation except for those designated as “red zones” as recently as Saturday. Currently, 12 out of 31 provinces of the country are considered COVID-19 hotspots and categorized as red zones. In a press conference, Haji-Mirzai also pointed out that …

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Health Of Jailed Iranian Rights Activist On Hunger Strike Deteriorates

Radiofarda – The husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent lawyer and human rights activist who is on hunger strike at Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, said Thursday her health has badly deteriorated after seventeen days of refusing food. Ms. Sotoudeh went on a hunger strike on August 11 to protest the “unfair” and “illegal” conditions of political prisoners in Iran and …

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Coronavirus: Iran’s COVID-19 death toll surpasses 21,000, spokesman says

Al-Arabia – Iran’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 119 to 21,020, the health ministry’s spokeswoman told state TV on Wednesday, with the total number of identified cases rising to 365,606.Sima Sadat Lari said that 2,243 new cases were identified in the past 24 hours in Iran, rising from 2,213 a day earlier. Read the latest updates in …

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Iran reports 141 new coronavirus deaths, total: 20,643

Al-Arabia – The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Iran reached 20,643 on Sunday, with 141 deaths in the past 24 hours, a health ministry official said. The total number of infections reached 358,905, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported, citing health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari. Read the latest updates in our dedicated coronavirus section. Lari said more …

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Infected Labor Activist Taken to Another Prison Instead of Hospital

Iran-HRM – Infected labor activist Jafar Azimzadeh has started a hunger strike since Sunday August 16, after being transferred from Evin Prison to Gohardasht Prison (Rajai Shahr) in Karaj instead of a hospital. Mr. Azimzadeh contracted the corona virus while in Evin Prison. After a clinic doctor diagnosed that he was an emergency case, prison authorities transferred him out of …

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