"Since COVID-19 has spread in our country, we have decided to disinfect passengers and transit areas every day. In this regard, we have bought three disinfecting machines for passengers, said Mohammad Mahdi Karbalaei, the CEO of Imam Khomeini Airport City Co.
US deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 23,000 on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, as officials said the worst may be over and the outbreak could reach its peak this week.
The US economic recovery from the disruptions caused by the novel coronavirus outbreak will likely be a "long, hard road" in which some parts of the economy will periodically shut down and restart, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari said on Sunday.
Istanbul, Ankara and other major Turkish cities locked down for two days to combat the spread of the coronavirus under an Interior Ministry order, as the country's death toll from the pandemic rose above 1,000 on Saturday.
US President Donald Trump has shrugged off the need to significantly expand countrywide coronavirus testing capabilities, saying he wants to reopen the country next month despite concerns from both economists and health experts that the worsening pandemic.
Footage has emerged of workers in protective gear burying dozens of bodies in a mass grave in New York as the number of fatalities from the coronavirus continues to rise in the US state.
The United Nations has delivered a 90-ton shipment of much-needed medical aid to Venezuela to reinforce the country’s healthcare system amid the coronavirus outbreak in the Latin American country.
The head of the United Nations has called for unity among Security Council members, warning that the coronavirus pandemic could pose a threat to world peace or trigger opportunistic biological terrorist attacks.
Iranians are celebrating the birth anniversary of the Twelfth and last Shia Imam, Imam Mahdi (PBUH), at their homes amid a ban on outdoor festivities and the closure of religious centers due to a deadly coronavirus pandemic.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has welcomed Russia’s initiative for the creation of a "green corridor" to replace economic sanctions amid the global battle against the new coronavirus pandemic.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has predicted that global trade growth would plummet by up to a third in 2020, leading to a massive recession worldwide following the coronavirus pandemic.
Data from US states shows that the coronavirus is wreaking havoc in African American neighborhoods, highlighting disparities in health and inequalities in access to medical care.
An Iranian university researcher says domestically-developed coronavirus diagnostic test kits, light-weight ventilators and virus-killingfacemasks will soon enter the mass-production stage.
Confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe now number at 1,347,803, and a total of 74,807 people have lost their lives as a result of complications caused by the virus, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. More than 277,400 people have recovered.
Somerset Capital Management (SCM), an investment firm, co-founded and partly owned by the UK government minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, told clients that the dive in stock market valuations around the world since the pandemic took hold had made “excellent entry points for investors”.
The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has now reached 69,498, and 1,275,542 people are diagnosed with the viral infection around the globe, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres late Sunday urged governments around the world to consider protecting women as part of their response to the deadly novel coronavirus pandemic.