Iran has possibly passed the peak of the seventh wave of the pandemic and coronavirus cases seem to be on the decline, a member of the national science committee against the contagion, Mohammad Vajagani, said on Monday.
The number of cities on coronavirus red alert more than doubled in a span of one week, from 57 to now 120 as highly contagious variants of the original virus circulate throughout the country.
Iran has reinstated its conditions for air travel to the country amid a new wave of Covid-19, according to the spokesperson of the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran.
Health Minister Bahram Einollahi on Saturday announced that Iran had entered the seventh wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and encouraged the public to administer booster shots as soon as possible.
Some 3,588 new cases of infection with COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours in Iran which has more than tripled compared to 1,453 new cases reported a day earlier, according to the latest update by the Iranian Ministry of Health on Tuesday.
Iran has reported a first double digit death toll from the coronavirus (COVID-19) in months as the country prepares for a potential new surge in the number of infections.
Health Minister Bahram Einollahi encouraged everyone over the age of 12 to receive a Covid-19 booster shot given the recent surge in active cases and hospitalizations.
Iran is at risk of seeing another surge in coronavirus cases in the near future, Hamid Souri, an epidemiologist, said on Monday.
Passenger traffic in Iranian airports registered a year-on-year rise of 51% in the current fiscal year’s two months (March 21-May 21), as 5.38 million passengers were flown internally by Iranian airlines.
In the latest update by Iranian Health Ministry on Thursday no COVID-related deaths were reported over the past 24 hours.