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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Valipour told IRNA on Sunday that Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Ministry of Roads and Urban Development as well as the Red Crescent Society collaborated to screen people for COVID-19 disease from March 10 to April 25 and the results of screening tests of 204,911 travelers showed that 55 people were suspected of having coronavirus.

According to the official, 32,087 instant tests for COVID-19 have been conducted by 431 operational forces in 16 provinces.

Members and volunteers of the Red Crescent Society supervise entrances in the provinces and conduct instant tests from everyone who enters Iran from abroad, he said, adding that they send sick travelers to temporary care units.

Iran’s Health Ministry announced on Saturday that 374 more Iranians passed away from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours bringing the total death toll to 69,120.

18,230 new cases of infection with the disease were found during the period, 2,912 of whom were hospitalized, the ministry said, adding that 1,863,405 patients out of a total of 2,377,039 infected people have recovered or been discharged from hospitals.

Some 5,156 coronavirus patients are in critical condition and being treated in intensive care units, the ministry noted, saying that 15,078,540 coronavirus diagnosis tests have so far been carried out across the country.

The ministry went on to say that some 584,736 Iranians have got the first dose of corona vaccine and some 157,258 people received the second dose of the vaccine.

According to official reports from around the world, about 146 million people have been confirmed that they have got the disease so far, and nearly three million people lost their lives.

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Since March 10, some 146,177 passengers were screened for COVID-19 by IRCS forces, 24,374 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 47 individuals, who tested positive, have so far been temporarily quarantined, IRNA reported on Monday.

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 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.

Some 5,000 members of the IRCS cooperate for carrying out the plan; while around 8,000 individuals enter the country via borders daily, IRCS head, Karim Hemmati said on March 26.

Last week, President Hassan Rouhani said that the fourth wave of COVID-19 resurgence has been registered in two provinces.

“If people in other provinces do not observe (health guidelines), they may experience the fourth wave as well,” Rouhani was quoted as saying.

“According to the statistics, compliance with health guidelines has decreased,” he warned.

New cases and mortalities

In a press briefing on Monday, Health Ministry’s spokesperson Sima-Sadat Lari confirmed 23,311 new cases of COVID-19 infection, raising the total number of infections to 2,093,452. She added that 1,720,084 patients have so far recovered, but 4,440 remain in critical conditions of the disease.

During the past 24 hours, 274 patients have lost their lives, bringing the total number of deaths to 64,764, she added.

So far, 13,770,167 COVID-19 diagnostic tests have been performed in the country.

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