President Hassan Rouhani says Iran has begun taking new measures to screen people for COVID-19 symptoms in a bid to rein in the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Technology firms have been given access to confidential information in data-mining operation that is part of the UK government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Iran’s deputy health minister says infections with and deaths from the new coronavirus have assumed a downward trend across most of the country's 31 provinces.

The health ministry of the besieged Gaze Strip warns of critical healthcare situation as its medical laboratory faces severe shortage of necessary supplies amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Iran's health minister says that the country’s international standing in regards to containing the coronavirus outbreak will “greatly change” in coming days.

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran's health infrastructure is strong enough and prepared to counter a possible rise in COVID-19 cases.

A manager of an Iranian knowledge-based company says their indigenous coronavirus diagnostic test kits are ready to go to the global market.

The Lebanese Ministry of health has declared hundreds of confirmed cases of Coronavirus. This comes as the country is witnessing almost complete closure of institutions in efforts to curb the spread of the pandemic. 

Afghanistan public health ministry has recently confirmed 10 positive cases of coronavirus infection across Afghanistan while at least 60 suspected cases have been confirmed so far.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has agreed to a proposal to consider as “martyrs” medics who have lost their lives in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak in Iran.