TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Defense Ministry launched the mass production of advanced thermal cameras used to screen people for the illness caused by the new coronavirus, known as COVID-19, as all provinces of the country are struggling with the infectious disease. Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the country, the defense industry’s experts […]
TEHRAN, Mar. 09 (MNA) – Secretary of Biotechnology Development Headquarters of the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology Mostafa Ghanei informed on Monday that Iranian knowledge-based companies will put their produced coronavirus test kits to the market next Iranian calendar month, Farvardin (Starting on March 21, 2020). As Ghanei, who is also a member of COVID-19 Scientific […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Minister of Health Saeed Namaki called on medical research and technology teams in his ministry to undertake research into the novel coronavirus that has infected all provinces of the country. Namaki on Monday sent a letter to the Health Ministry’s department of research and technology, urging that the research teams in […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Oil markets crashed more than 30% after the disintegration of the OPEC+ alliance triggered an all-out price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia that is likely to have sweeping political and economic consequences. Brent futures suffered the second-largest decline on record in the opening seconds of trading in Asia, behind only the […]
TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) – Russia’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov has urged the US officials to refrain from politicizing the IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear program. “With all respect to US officials whose status is much higher than mine let’s be honest: attempts to make a big political case from […]
۲ TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has registered 2,241 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the world in the past day, with 143 of those cases in China, according to the informational bulletin released on Friday. The WHO said that 95,333 cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed globally, with […]
TEHRAN, Mar. 05 (MNA) – Iraqi Border Crossing Department revealed the closure of its borders for one week. According to Iraq Border Crossing Department, the activity of discharging and unloading goods imported into Iraq will be halted for a period of one week on Mar. 8-15 from all borders including Khosravi, Soumar, Mehran, Chazabeh and […]
TEHRAN, Mar. 04 (MNA) – Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh met and held talks with Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Geneva. During the meeting, the two sides discussed further cooperation on Iran’s strategic plan for the control of the coronavirus, […]
TEHRAN, Mar. 04 (MNA) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that people should continue to fight against coronavirus in cooperation with Health Ministry. After planting an apple sapling in Sa’dabad Historical-Cultural Complex in Tehran on Wednesday on the occasion of National Arbour Day and Natural Resources Week, the Iranian president said, “Arbour Day is a […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The head of the Headquarters for Executing the Order of Imam Khomeini highlighted the efforts to combat the outbreak of the new coronavirus in Iran and slammed some European countries for blocking the efforts. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, a task force was formed in the Headquarters for Executing the Order […]