Health and Hygiene

Radiofarda -Radio Farda’s ongoing investigation of the coronavirus toll in Iran shows 77,782 persons have been isolated or hospitalized with coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms, as of late Friday, April 3. That is 24,000 more than the official government figure. The collected data sums up figures released by local officials and the Health Ministry in Tehran as well as media reports across …

Radiofarda – The Commander of Coronavirus Combat Taskforce of Tehran on Thursday warned the authorities that despite a decline in the number of patients in the capital, the situation is not stable enough yet to discontinue social distancing measures. “The biggest mistake that can happen is to think that we have overcome the crisis,” Alireza Zali said. “We may have …

RFL/RE – Kambiz says the day he buried his 96-year-old grandmother, who died after contracting the coronavirus, was the “saddest and loneliest” day of his life. He was the only member of her large family who attended the burial at Tehran’s Behesht Zahra cemetery. The family did not hold a traditional postburial gathering in order not to endanger others and …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s death toll from the new coronavirus rose on Friday to 3,294 as it claimed 134 lives in the past 24 hours, according to Health Ministry Spokesman Kianoush Jahanpur.Read the latest updates in our dedicated coronavirus section.The total number of people confirmed to be infected is 53,183, he said on state television, adding that 4,035 were “under observation.” a …

RRFL/RE – Across the globe, the number of reported confirmed cases of the coronavirus is always higher than the day before, topping 1 million as of April 2. But what if the true numbers are actually even higher? Experts say data — and how it is reported, or not reported — can give us an incomplete portrait of the problem. …

gatestoneinstitute.org – The Iranian regime’s failure to grasp the significance of the outbreak in its own country has led 16 other countries in the region to claim that their own outbreaks originated in Iran. These include Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates. The European aid package, which is said to be worth $548,000, is the first …

Radiofarda – An exclusive report by Radio Farda puts the number of those who have been hospitalized with coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms in Iran at over 70,000 people, will over the official figure of positive cases. The report which sums up the figures released by local officials and the Health Ministry in Tehran as well as media reports says 70,108 patients …

Radiofarda – In a tweet on Monday, the U.S. Department of State spokesperson replied to Iranian authorities’ allegations that the United States has waged a war of “medical terrorism” against Iran and said the regime could access the billions in Khamenei’s “tax-free hedge fund” to fight the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. “It’s not the sanctions. It’s the regime,” Morgan Ortagus wrote …

Iran-HRM – As Iran’s coronavirus death toll rose to 14,200 over the weekend, 78 healthcare workers were confirmed to have died in Iran’s coronavirus crisis. The deaths of the Iranian healthcare workers from Covid-19 have shed light on severe lack of necessary medical items and standard protective gear in under equipped hospitals across the country.Even before the coronavirus outbreak, Iran stood way …

VOA – Germany, Britain and France have facilitated exports of medical goods to Iran in the first use of a mechanism designed to get around U.S. sanctions, Germany said Tuesday. A German Foreign Ministry statement Tuesday did not specify what type of medical supplies were involved, nor any companies that were part of the action. It said now that the …