Health and Hygiene

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour spoke to reporters May 21 about the latest update of the country’s coronavirus numbers and efforts to bring the spread of the virus under control. Jahanpour discussed efforts by the Health Ministry to hire temporary workers who signed up to combat the virus that causes COVID-19. While he did not discuss the total number of workers hired, …

VOA – Iran’s government is facing a crisis of legitimacy over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to critics. Iran has recorded more than 120,000 cases and 7,000 deaths from COVID-19, according to scientists’ estimates. There are also concerns over gross human rights abuses during the outbreak, as Henry Ridgwell reports. Producers: HenryRidgwell, Jonathan Spier

Radiofarda – Reports from the province of Khuzestan in southwestern Iran say the situation with COVID-19 epidemic is “serious”, particularly as people appear to ignore public health warnings and medical staff are affected by fatigue after weeks of hard work. A local official warned that a renewed lockdown needs to be imposed in this province regardless of the heavy burden …

Al-Arabia – Around 10,000 Iranian health workers have been infected with the new coronavirus, the semi-official ILNA news agency quoted the deputy health minister as saying on Thursday. “Around 10,000 health workers have been infected with the deadly disease in Iran and some of them have died,” Qassem Janbabai said, according to ILNA.

VOA – The wife of an Iranian dissident recently jailed for 16 years has denounced Iran’s Islamist rulers for rejecting her appeals to furlough her sick husband as the coronavirus plagues the nation’s prisons. In a Tuesday phone interview with VOA Persian from her home in Mashhad, Sedigheh Maliki-Fard said she had written repeatedly to the northeastern city’s Revolutionary Court …

PayvandNews –An official with the Iranian Medical Council has said that 107 healthcare workers have so far lost their lives in the country in fighting the coronavirus. Names of 107 medical staff printed on front page of Iran daily “We are gathering precise data from all over the country in order to know how many people from among medical staff have been …

Radiofarda – Iranian epidemiologists say the symptoms associated with COVID-19 in Iran have changed from respiratory to gastrointestinal. They also believe the shift to gastrointestinal symptoms which are often accompanied with no fever or only low fever cause a delay in diagnosis and result in the further spread of the virus by those who are infected but have no obvious …

Radiofarda -Iran’s Health Ministry spokesman on Friday said the number of COVID-19 cases is expected to increase in three provinces in the coming days as the total number of cases in the country rose to nearly 117,000. On Friday Dr. Kianoush Jahanpur announced 2,102 new cases. This is the first time in the past week that the number of new …

Al-Arabia – Iran on Friday reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections in more than a month as it warned of clusters hitting new regions. Read the latest updates in our dedicated coronavirus section.Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 2,102 new cases were confirmed across the country in the past 24 hours, bringing the overall number to 116,635.That figure is …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – According to informed sources, several cases of Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) have been identified in Ward 7 of Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj. The authorities have claimed that the prisoners are infected with tuberculosis and have transferred them to unknown locations. One of the three halls in Ward 7 is dedicated to tuberculosis and HIV prisoners, …