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The BBC says its Persian Service has received leaked documents from an anonymous source indicating that Iran is not being truthful with its COVID-19 data.

The BBC says its Persian Service has received leaked documents from an anonymous source indicating that Iran is not being truthful with its COVID-19 data.

A healthcare worker checks the temperature of a patient at a hospital in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand.

Governments everywhere should adopt a much more focused approach to stopping coronavirus transmission if they want to avoid having to impose sweeping lockdowns once again.

Child in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

The World Health Organization and UNICEF warned of an alarming decline in the number of children receiving life-saving vaccines around the world on July 15, 2020. This is due to disruptions in the delivery and uptake of immunization services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to new data by WHO and UNICEF, these disruptions threaten to reverse hard-won progress to reach more children and adolescents with a wider range of vaccines, which has already been hampered by a decade of stalling coverage.

Traditional Hadong Tea Agrosystem in Hwagae-myeon, Korea, cultivate indigenous tea trees around streams and between rocks in hilly areas surrounding temples.

Health workers in Madagascar test citizens for COVID-19.

Vendors in a bakery in Constantine, Algeria, during the COVID-19 crisis.

Patients at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences in Delhi, India.