COVID-19 Vaccine: Iran Start Production in Early 2021

COVID-19 Vaccine: Iran Start Production in Early 2021..According to news from Yitong News Agency on December 2, Iran’s Health Minister Said Namaki stated that Iran plans to start production of the COVID-19 vaccine in the spring of 2021, and human trials have been conducted before.

Namaki told Yitong News Agency during the meeting of the Iranian COVID-19 Vaccine Committee, “We have pre-ordered 16.8 million new coronavirus vaccines from the COVAX project of the World Health Organization and jointly produced them with other countries. The clinical trials of these vaccines have been carried out in Iran. .”

Namaki added, “So far, no vaccine company has obtained a WHO production certificate. Some vaccine manufacturers are in the final stage of receiving WHO certification. Once they are certified, I hope to pre-order vaccines from them. “

Iran Health News:

The spokesman of the Ministry of Health said: from yesterday afternoon until today, April 5, 2016, based on definitive diagnostic criteria, 2875 new patients with Covid 19 were identified in the country and the total number of patients identified due to this disease reached 50468 cases.

According to Webda, Dr. Kianoosh Jahanpour, while announcing this news, said: “Fortunately, 16,711 patients have been recovered and discharged so far, and this process continues.”

He added: “Unfortunately, during the last 24 hours, 124 patients with Covid 19 have died in the country and the total number of deaths due to this disease in the country has reached 3160. 3956 patients are in a serious condition of this disease.” have.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Health further announced the participation of 69 million people in the corona screening project in the country.