Iran on Wednesday began rolling out COVID-19 jabs for kids over the age of five as part of the second phase of a plan to immunize children against the pandemic.
Iran’s Health Ministry on Monday reported 28,995 new COVID-19 cases, taking the country’s total infections to 6,373,174, Xinhua reported.
Four new shipments of Covid-19 vaccines arrived in Iran, bringing the total volume of imports to 154.98 million doses, Rouhollah Latifi, spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration said on Jan. 19.
World Bank has approved the allocation of a $90 million loan to the Islamic Republic of Iran for its battle against the coronavirus disease, according to Ali Fekri, the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs.
Iran has started imposing a two-week travel ban from neighbors as the country struggles to prevent a surge in potential infections related to the Omicron variant of the coronavius.
Iran registered its first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 on Sunday as health authorities convened for an emergency meeting to decide on an approach to address the new global threat.
A new shipment of Covid-19 vaccines arrived on Dec. 16, bringing the total volume of such imports to 150.11 million doses, according to Mehrdad Jamal Arvanaghi, the technical deputy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration.
Iran on Monday reported its lowest overnight death toll since May 2020 as 42 patients lost their lives to the coronavirus and 14 provinces logged zero fatalities.
The Health Ministry said on Sunday that about 50 million citizens have received both doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
As the country is dealing with the fifth wave of the pandemic, all cities are now out of the high-risk red zones, IRNA reported on Saturday.