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Benefactors donate $98m to support deprived students 27 Oct 2021

Benefactors donate $98m to support deprived students

People across the country have donated a sum of 4.1 trillion rials (around $98 million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) for the financially struggling students through a charity event prior to the upcoming school year (starting September 23).

Travelers entering Iran should provide vaccination evidence 26 Oct 2021

Travelers entering Iran should provide vaccination evidence

All passengers who come back to the country should provide evidence that they have received two doses of coronavirus vaccine, otherwise they have to undergo a PCR test, Health Ministry official Mohammad Mehdi Gooya has said.

3 Asian countries top export destinations for Iranian nanoproducts 25 Oct 2021

3 Asian countries top export destinations for Iranian nanoproducts

Among the 41 countries buying Iranian nanoproducts, three Asian countries, namely Iraq, Turkey, and Afghanistan, have the highest imports, IRNA reported on Monday.

UN continues to support Iran in fight against coronavirus 25 Oct 2021

UN continues to support Iran in fight against coronavirus

The United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric has expressed readiness to continue support for Iran in the fight against the global pandemic.

Expats hold 10% share in funding schools built by benefactors 21 Oct 2021

Expats hold 10% share in funding schools built by benefactors

Some 10 percent of schools constructed by benefactors across the country have been funded by Iranians living outside the country, Nasser Ghofli, the director of the School-Building Donors Association, has stated.

Bill on protection of Caspian Sea biodiversity approved 18 Oct 2021

Bill on protection of Caspian Sea biodiversity approved

The Majlis (Iranian Parliament) has approved the draft Protocol for the Conservation of Biodiversity, annexed to the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea.

COVID-19 increases tuberculosis deaths in Iran 17 Oct 2021

COVID-19 increases tuberculosis deaths in Iran

The incidence and mortality of tuberculosis (TB) has increased due to the coronavirus pandemic, Mohammad Mehdi Gooya, head of the diseases management center of the Ministry of Health, said on Saturday.

Iran ranks 4th worldwide in traditional medicine citation 16 Oct 2021

Iran ranks 4th worldwide in traditional medicine citation

Iran has ranked fourth for publication of articles in the field of traditional medicine and medicinal plants in the world, ISNA quoted Nafiseh Hosseini, a Health Ministry official, as saying on Friday.

Nasal dose of COV Pars reduces virus transmission by 90% 13 Oct 2021

Nasal dose of COV Pars reduces virus transmission by 90%

  The inhaled dose of COV Pars vaccine reduces the transmission of delta and alpha coronavirus variants by up to 90 percent, Ali Es’haqi, head of Razi Vaccine and Serum Institute, has said.

Pharmaceutical import decreases by 91% 12 Oct 2021

Pharmaceutical import decreases by 91%

The import of pharmaceuticals has declined in Iran by 91 percent, which shows the capability of the country’s pharmaceutical industry, Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz, head of the Food and Drug Administration, said on Monday.