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203 travelers suspected of COVID-19 quarantined

mahla — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:01:14 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – 203 travelers suspected of COVID-19 quarantined.203 travelers suspected of COVID-19 quarantined. Some 203 passengers, who tested positive at the borders, have so far been temporarily quarantined since March 10, under a plan to rapidly identify suspected cases of coronavirus and prevent the spread of new strains.

Some 551,913 passengers have so far been screened for coronavirus by thermal tests at the country’s official borders, Mehdi Valipour, head of Relief and Rescue Organization affiliated to the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), has stated.

During the aforesaid period, IRCS forces have conducted 60,686 PCR tests and 79,332 rapid tests, he said, IRNA reported on Sunday.

Some 471 members of the IRCS cooperate for carrying out the plan in 16 provinces across the country, Valipour concluded.

With the cooperation of ministries of health and transport, a plan is being implemented with the goal of rapidly identifying and testing incoming passengers and keeping them in quarantine facilities, if necessary.

Thirty border checkpoints have been selected, including 18 land borders, nine air borders, and three sea borders, all incoming passengers will be tested and referred to the quarantine facilities in case of necessity.

Around 8,000 individuals enter the country via borders on a daily basis.

On August 22, Iran announced that all travelers must have a negative PCR test certificate or a health card to enter the country during the Covid-19 pandemic, IRINN reported.

Due to the prevalence of delta variant, negative PCR test is also mandatory for vaccinated passengers, Mohammad Reza Seif, head of safety and quality assurance department of Imam Khomeini Airport Town Co, said.

All passengers entering Iran, even if they have been vaccinated and have a vaccination card, must have a negative test result, he stated.

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Over 12,000 PCR tests for passengers at borders

mahla — Sun, 09 May 2021 12:09:46 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Over 12,000 PCR tests for passengers at borders. Some 12,504 passengers have so far undergone PCR tests based on a plan launched on March 10 to rapidly identify suspected cases of coronavirus and prevent the spread of new UK strain.

Meanwhile, 258,937 passengers were screened for COVID-19 by IRCS forces, 37,692 of whom underwent rapid tests, Mehdi Valipour, head of the Relief and Rescue Organization of the Red Crescent Society, said.

He went on to lament that some 57 individuals, who tested positive, have so far been temporarily quarantined, IRNA reported on Saturday.

With the cooperation of ministries of health and transport, a plan was implemented to rapidly identify and test incoming passengers and keeping them in quarantine facilities, if necessary.

Thirty border checkpoints have been selected, including 16 land borders, 10 air borders, and 2 sea borders, all incoming passengers will be tested and referred to the quarantine facilities in case of necessity.

Some 471 members of the IRCS cooperate for carrying out the plan; while around 8,000 individuals enter the country via borders daily.

On April 28, shared borders with Pakistan were closed, and a day later, the eastern border terminals of the country stopped operation, to contain the new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

New cases and mortalities

In a press briefing on Saturday, Health Ministry’s spokesperson, Sima-Sadat Lari, confirmed 13,576 new cases of COVID-19 infection, raising the total number of infections to 2,640,670. She added that 2,092,381 patients have so far recovered, but 5,545 remain in critical conditions of the disease.

During the past 24 hours, 283 patients have lost their lives, bringing the total number of deaths to 74,524, she added.

So far, 16,929,609 COVID-19 diagnostic tests have been performed in the country.

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Iran Screens over 210,000 Incoming Passengers

mahla — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 12:07:38 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran Screens over 210,000 Incoming Passengers. More than 210,000 passengers have been controlled for coronavirus infection at the country’s points of entry, the Iranian Red Crescent Society for Rescue and Relief announced.

“So far, 213,250 passengers have been monitored through the plan,” Head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society’s Rescue and Relief Organization Mehdi Valipour said on Tuesday.

Ministries of health and transport have adopted a plan with the goal of rapidly identifying and testing incoming passengers and keeping them in quarantine facilities, if necessary.

Some 28 border posts have been selected, including 16 land borders, 10 air borders, and two sea borders, to test all incoming passengers and quarantine them in case of necessity.

In a relevant development earlier on Tuesday, Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki announced that the second phase of general vaccination against coronavirus started in the country, adding that 3 cases of Africa-originated COVID-19 infection have been identified in Southern Iran.

“We faced the disloyalty of vaccine suppliers in this process and the vaccination of the first group (in Iran) was completed late and with a delay of two weeks. The second phase started today,” Namaki said.

He added that the third phase of the clinical trial of one of the most effective vaccines in the world, which was carried out by transferring technical know-how from Cuba, has started in Iran, noting that the country is also due to produce Sputnik-V vaccine inside Iran in cooperation with Russia which will accelerate vaccination of people in the country.

Namaki also voiced concern that three cases of infection to a coronavirus mutation that has first been recorded in Africa have been reported in one of the country’s Southern provinces.

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