coronavirus

Iran approves $5bn cheap loans plan to support businesses amid coronavirus pandemic

The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has approved emergency funding worth nearly $5 billion to offer cheap loans to businesses hit by the new coronavirus pandemic.

Macro Economy

Iranian private firm starts supplying coronavirus test kits

An Iranian private pharmaceutical company has started supplying coronavirus test kits that provide results in 2 hours.

Society Economy

EU urges international aid for Iran in coronavirus fight

The EU on Monday urged the international community to send humanitarian aid to Iran to help its coronavirus fight, arguing that such steps would not breach US sanctions.

Society Economy

Iran builds temporary coronavirus hospital inside shopping mall

Iran has braced itself with a temporary hospital built in the country’s largest shopping center - the Iran Mall, which will be put into use soon for patients infected with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Society Economy

Pakistan PM urges US to lift Iran sanctions amid virus outbreak

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged US President Donald Trump to lift unilateral sanctions that his administration has imposed on Iran as Tehran is engaged in a diligent fight against the ongoing pandemic of the deadly new coronavirus, known as COVID-19.

Society Economy

Iran not invited to IMF meeting on coronavirus pandemic

Iran has been sidelined from an initiative by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to coordinate efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Macro Economy

Iran leaders vow to defeat coronavirus in Nowruz messages

Iran’s supreme leader and president promised Friday that the country would overcome one of the world’s deadliest coronavirus outbreaks just as it had faced down sweeping US sanctions.

Society Economy

Iran taking delivery of 2 large shipments of N95 masks

Iranian authorities say they are taking delivery of two large shipments of respirator masks, otherwise known as N95 masks, amid a nationwide campaign to fight the spread of the new coronavirus in the country.

Society Economy

’Iran only country that cannot buy medical items due to US bans’

Tehran’s ambassador to Madrid says Iran is the only country in the world that cannot buy medicine and medical equipment from the global market because of America’s “cruel and inhumane” sanctions, which are hindering the country’s fight against a coronavirus outbreak.

Society Economy

Iran private sector calls on European businesses to ask gov’ts to defy US sanctions amid corona pandemic

President of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) has called on European national and local chambers of commerce to ask their governments to defy Washington’s anti-Iran sanctions amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

Iran Chamber