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Iran to start receiving Covid-19
vaccines developed by
AstraZeneca in Feb
Iran will start receiving doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in
February via the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX)
platform, Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeed Namaki
announced.
"AstraZeneca informed us the night before last that it will start
delivering 4.2 million doses in February within the framework of
COVAX," Namaki said in a video announcement on Wednesday.
Namaki also said that Iran's Razi Vaccine and Serum Research
Institute has been authorised to start clinical trials of its vaccine
candidate, and they will hopefully start the trials next week.
At her daily briefing, spokeswoman for the ministry, Sima Sadat
Lari, said 6,870 new Covid-19 cases were detected in the past 24
hours, raising the country's overall count to 1,438,286 infections.
Of the newly infected, she noted, 701 had to be hospitalised. Read
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