A senior official at the World Health Organization (WHO) says he has been impressed to see how Iran is fighting the spread of a coronavirus that has infected thousands of the people across the country.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on relevant governments and airlines to help with the return of many Iranian nationals stranded abroad amid the deadly global outbreak of the novel coronavirus in line with the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Turkey has developed a formula to continue cross-border trade with Iran despite a travel ban due to the coronavirus, the country’s Hurriyet newspaper reports.
The governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has expressed doubts about the practicality of a decision by the US government to allow Switzerland to use Iranian finances to ship food and medicine into the country.
As the new coronavirus claims more lives in Iran, the country speeds up efforts to combat the highly-contagious disease.
Iranian authorities say rainfalls in February helped mark a higher average precipitation for the water year in the country.
Iran has opened a section of a 121-km freeway linking its capital to Mazandaran province on the Caspian Sea, a feat which has challenged the country’s financial resources and technical capacity for decades.
Iranian factories producing face masks have swung into full gear amid a surge in coornavirus cases in the country that has caused deaths for a dozen people and infected scores more.
The total value in the main Iranian stock exchange has reached all-time high of nearly 499,000.
Data published by the Iranian government’s statistics department shows inflation has nudged down by 1.6 percent in the month ending on February 19, 2019.