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Covid-19 Cases Decline for 3rd Straight Day

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s daily coronavirus caseload dropped for the third consecutive day on Saturday, with 2,028 new infections, down by 178 compared to a day earlier.
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Publish Date:23/August/2020 | 11:20

IIC Helps Policyholders to Cushion Virus Losses

EghtesadOnline: Iran Insurance Company has given 15 trillion rials ($65 million) in credit to policyholders who could not afford to pay their premiums due to the problems created by Covid-19.
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Publish Date:22/August/2020 | 24:41

Covid-19 Daily Deaths Drop

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s overnight fatalities from the coronavirus disease, Covid-19, dropped sharply to 112 on Friday, health officials said, down by nearly 30% compared to Wednesday.
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Publish Date:22/August/2020 | 24:28

University Entrance Exams Begin Amid Covid-19 Resurgence

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped the 20,000 mark on Wednesday, as over one million students sat for the nationwide tests to enter undergraduate and graduate programs.
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Publish Date:20/August/2020 | 14:37

Covid-19 Taking Toll on 50% of Iranian Startups

EghtesadOnline: Around 50% of Iranian startups will most probably collapse due to the coronavirus pandemic and its economic impact, Iran's ICT Guild Organization declared in a report.
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Publish Date:19/August/2020 | 10:28

Iran's Daily Covid-19 Deaths Drop to Eight-Day Low

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s overnight fatalities due to the coronavirus outbreak dropped to its lowest in eight days on Sunday, although the Health Ministry’s Covid-19 Epidemiology Committee announced that the death rate is still “relatively high”.
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Publish Date:17/August/2020 | 10:57

Long-Term Plan to Deal With Covid-19

EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said his administration prefers a long-term solution to the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic to safeguard the people’s health and livelihood.
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Publish Date:16/August/2020 | 14:03

Measures to Curb Covid-19 Extended in Tehran

EghtesadOnline: The unabated spread of coronavirus pandemic in Iran’s capital prompted officials to extend both a remote working policy and the suspension of the city’s restricted traffic zone to thin out its crowded public transport system.
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Publish Date:15/August/2020 | 09:17

Univ. Entrance Exams Will Likely Be Postponed Amid Pandemic

EghtesadOnline: Iran is expected to postpone its annual university entrance test for the second time, as authorities in charge of holding the test have found it impossible to implement the Health Ministry’s last-minute changes to Covid-19 safety regulations.
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Publish Date:12/August/2020 | 10:09

Iran's Daily Covid-19 Update: 2,132 Cases, 189 Deaths

EghtesadOnline: Iran reported an uptick in coronavirus cases and deaths on Monday, logging 2,132 infections and 189 deaths, according to data compiled by the Health Ministry.
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Publish Date:11/August/2020 | 17:21

Steering Middle Course in Covid-19 Restrictions

EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani said Iran needs to navigate a middle course with regard to coronavirus-related restrictions so as to avoid “response fatigue”—as put by the World Health Organization—during a long-term battle with the infectious disease.
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Publish Date:10/August/2020 | 11:12

Covid-19 Crisis Challenging Urban Transportation Response

EghtesadOnline: The new round of traffic rule waiver in the capital city of Tehran has failed to curb the jostling crowd in the subway, contrary to expectations, Tehran Metro’s CEO said.
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Publish Date:09/August/2020 | 10:43

‘No Return to Normality’ in Short Run as Covid-19 Rages On

EghtesadOnline: Return to normality and the “defeat” of the coronavirus pandemic is not feasible during the next months, an Iranian health official said, pointing out that the only solution in the short term is to slow the viral infection.
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Publish Date:06/August/2020 | 18:12

Iran to Enforce Strict Covid-19 Guidelines

EghtesadOnline: Iran is to implement stringent coronavirus-related health protocols in the midst of a second wave that has infected over 70,000 in the past month.
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Publish Date:02/August/2020 | 13:31

Iran Virus Infections Cross 300,000 Mark

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s Covid-19 tally rose past the 300,000 threshold on Friday, as its national taskforce began to broaden the scope of lockdown measures in its worst-hit regions.
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Publish Date:01/August/2020 | 08:52

Iran Breaks Its Record of Covid-19 Patients in ICUs

EghtesadOnline: The number of severely ill Covid-19 patients in intensive care units hit an all-time high in Iran on Monday, with 3,819 occupied beds, health officials said.
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Publish Date:28/July/2020 | 11:54

Iran Covid-19 Death Toll Tops 15,000

EghtesadOnline: Coronavirus patients and deaths are on the rise in Iran, as overall fatalities crossed 15,000 on Friday and the caseload climbed to 286,000, health officials announced.
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Publish Date:25/July/2020 | 10:18

Hospitals Fighting Covid-19 With Locally-Made Drugs

EghtesadOnline: Iran is supplying its hospitals with two domestically-manufactured drugs that have shown promise in treating severe cases of Covid-19, the country’s Food and Drug Administration announced.
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Publish Date:21/July/2020 | 24:30