Austria's partial coronavirus lockdown will end next week as planned but unvaccinated people will still face restrictions, the country's chancellor says.

Iran’s finance minister says two banks will start to offer cheap loans to workers left jobless by pandemic.

France reports its first case of the new Omicron coronavirus variant near Paris in a person who returned from Nigeria.

Iran’s COVID-19 task force authorizes third vaccine shot for all adults above 18.

A Brazilian congressional panel concludes that President Jair Bolsonaro should face 13 criminal charges, including homicide, for errors that led to the deaths of thousands.

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Iranian authorities say they will enforce a COVID vaccine mandate in mid-October.

The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic to the UN censures the US for imposing inhumane sanctions against Iran especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 50 percent of Iran’s target population have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, as the country’s vaccination rollout accelerates, made possible in part by larger foreign vaccine imports.

Iran has launched the second production line of the COVIran Barekat vaccine, developed by experts at the Headquarters for Executing the Order of Imam Khomeini.