Iran

Some 2436 people in Iran are diagnosed with the new Coronavirus in 24 hours, while thousands more are suspected of carrying the virus, an informed source told Avatoday on Saturday.

Avatoday is covering the crisis, using information from its own sources as well as from the people who contact Avatoday on daily bases and share their footages and experiences with the coronavirus outbreak in Iran.

New rounds of rockets fired at a joint military base of US, UK and other foreign bases North of Baghdad on Saturday, Local and US security forces confirmed to AP.

Eqbal Barazandeh and Somayeh Beidi two Iranian activist have been accused of “acting against national security” by Iranian judiciary, sources told Avatoday on Friday.

A Danish news agency on Friday claimed that the number of infected people with Coronavirus in Iran is much higher than reported by the state.

Avatoday sources in several prisons across Iran said that the situation inside prisons are critical as detainees suffer from shortage of sanitary supplies. The sources also added that so far, no political detainee have been freed.

Two sources from the city of Khorramabad in Lorestan Province have reported to Avatoday that state agents dressing in nurses’ uniforms visited the hospitals to secretly evacuate bodies of victims of Coronavirus.

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran said on Tuesday they had requested from Iran to free all political prisoners temporarily, Reuters

A source in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed to Avatoday late on Monday that 156 patients with Coronavirus died across Iran in past 24 hours.