Coronavirus outbreak in Iran: Kashmiri students, short of funds and struggling to get home, get cold shoulder from Indian authorities
Quratulain • 5 years agoEvery day, Kashmiri students in Iran awake to worried calls from family and friends back home who have heard news of an outbreak.
Iran's deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi who downplayed coronavirus fears tests positive for illness himself; Tehran sees rise in new case
• 5 years agoThe head of an Iranian government task force on the coronavirus who had urged the public not to overreact about its spread has tested positive for the illness himself, authorities said on Tuesday.
Coronavirus outbreak: Iran lawmaker claims 50 dead in city of Qom; officials deny claim, say 12 deaths so far
• 5 years agoNeighboring countries have reported infections from travelers from Iran in recent days, prompting several to shut their borders to Iranian citizens
Coronavirus toll in Iran climbs to six, 28 confirmed cases reported; schools in Tehran, Qoom, Arak ordered shut
• 5 years agoTwo people had died Friday from COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus. Authorities reported two deaths previously this week.
Health officials worry as untraceable clusters of coronavirus infections emerge around globe; worst isn't here yet, insists WHO
• 5 years agoIn South Korea, Singapore and Iran, clusters of coronavirus infections are leading to a jump in cases of the new viral illness outside China. But it’s not the numbers that are worrying experts: it's that increasingly they can't trace where the clusters started
Coronavirus outbreak: Iran reports 13 new cases; two more deaths in Qom takes toll across country to four
• 5 years agoConcerns over spread of the virus prompted authorities in Iran to close all schools and Shiite seminaries in Qom
General Qassem Soleimani’s body arrives in Iran, day after he was killed in US drone strike; mourners flock Ahvaz streets to pay homage
• 5 years agoSoleimani's death on Friday in Iraq further heightens tensions between Tehran and Washington after months of trading attacks and threats that put the wider Middle East on edge