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2021-10-19 22:03
90% of Iranian hotel employees receive COVID vaccine, others likely to lose jobs
TEHRAN – 90 percent of Iranian hoteliers and accommodation staff have received COVID-19 vaccine to date, the head of the Association of Iranian Hoteliers said on Monday.
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2021-10-13 21:30
Coronavirus: Lorestan registers 6,000 overnight stays in H1
TEHRAN – Vacationers made some 6,000 overnight stays in hotels and guest houses of Lorestan province during the first half of the current Iranian calendar year 1400 (started March 21) as many potential visitors stayed home since virus restrictions began in early 2019.
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2021-10-12 17:53
Nasal dose of COV Pars reduces virus transmission by 90%
TEHRAN – The inhaled dose of COV Pars vaccine reduces the transmission of delta and alpha coronavirus variants by up to 90 percent, Ali Es’haqi, head of Razi Vaccine and Serum Institute, has said.
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2021-10-08 17:22
Spikogen vaccine licensed for emergency use
TEHRAN – The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency permit for the Iranian-Australian Spikogen vaccine, IRNA reported on Thursday.
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2021-09-25 21:42
President: No one should be deprived of education due to poverty
TEHRAN — On Saturday, President Ebrahim Raisi said no one should be denied of the opportunity for education due to poverty.
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2021-09-13 19:00
‘No red lines in importing COVID vaccines, even Pfizer and Moderna’
TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday that the country is facing no red lines in importing coronavirus vaccines, even Pfizer and Moderna.
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2021-09-13 18:36
Iranian hotels suffer $4.8 billion loss since start of pandemic
TEHRAN – Iranian hotels have lost 202 trillion rials (some $4.8 billion at the official exchange rate of 42,000 rials per dollar( of potential revenues as the COVID-19 pandemic drastically curbed travel in the country, the Iranian Hotel Association has said.
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2021-09-13 17:16
Fakhra vaccine enters third phase of human test
TEHRAN – The third phase of the Fakhra vaccine’s human trial started on Monday by being administrated to 40,000 volunteers, IRIB reported.
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2021-09-11 19:30
Nearly 600,000 travelers tested for COVID-19 at borders
TEHRAN – Some 599,623 passengers have so far been screened for coronavirus by thermal tests at the country's official borders since March 10, Mehdi Valipour, head of Relief and Rescue Organization affiliated to the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), said on Saturday.
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2021-09-08 18:16
Pastu Covac vaccine approved for children under 18
TEHRAN – Pastu Covac, developed jointly by the Pasteur Institute of Iran and Cuba's Finlay Vaccine Institute, is the only homegrown vaccine that includes use in children aged under 18.
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2021-09-06 19:21
By Afshin Majlesi
Ideas for traveling to Iran in coronavirus era
It goes without saying that the novel coronavirus has dramatically affected our lives and economy in nearly every corner of the globe. Its variants have even taken a bigger toll on traveling with an employment drop of millions.
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2021-09-05 18:17
Cov Pars begins third phase of clinical studies
TEHRAN – “Razi Cov Pars” vaccine entered on Sunday the third phase of the human trial, being administrated to 40,000 people, IRIB reported.
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2021-09-04 21:59
Minister calls on travel agencies to design affordable packages
TEHRAN – Iranian tourism minister Ezzatollah Zarghami has called on travel agencies and tour operators to design affordable packages aimed to jumpstart domestic tourism when COVID-19 is less of major concern.
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2021-08-30 18:57
IRCS in talks for importing COVID-19 vaccines from renowned sources
TEHRAN – The Iranian Red Crescent Society is currently negotiating with a number of renowned international manufacturers for importing coronavirus vaccines.
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2021-08-29 16:36
Iran awaiting 100m doses of coronavirus vaccine by yearend
TEHRAN – As per contracts signed with international manufacturers, some 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine should be imported by the end of 2021, Nasser Riyahi, the head of the Association of Medicine Importers, said on Sunday.
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2021-08-27 20:54
Another atomic bomb hits Japan, this time with a different atom
TEHRAN – In a blow to the U.S.-made Covid-19 vaccines, Japan has suspended the use of about 1.63 million doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine over contamination fears, further reinforcing the soundness of arguments that foreign vaccines cannot be fully trusted.
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2021-08-27 16:34
COVID-19 vaccine Razi Cov Pars starts third clinical trial phase
TEHRAN - The second Iranian-made coronavirus vaccine, named Razi Cov Pars, started the third phase of the human trial on August 24.
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2021-08-27 16:33
More 2.2m doses of COVID-19 vaccine imported
TEHRAN – The seventeenth consignment of coronavirus vaccines, amounting to 2.22 million doses, was imported by the Iranian Red Crescent Society on Thursday.
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2021-08-22 22:25
Raisi emphasizes on importing vaccines as soon as possible
TEHRAN— Speaking Saturday evening at the meeting of the National Headquarters for Coronavirus Control, Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi said that the process of importing vaccines must not be delayed.
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2021-08-14 20:23
Raisi: 30 million doses of vaccine to be imported
TEHRAN — Speaking at the meeting of the National Headquarters for Coronavirus Control on Saturday, President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi confirmed that 30 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine will be imported.
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2021-08-14 20:20
IRCS denies sending coronavirus vaccines to Venezuela
TEHRAN – The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), has denied sending any shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from Iran to Venezuela.
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2021-08-09 22:01
By Mohammad Mazhari
It takes 10-20 years to eradicate Covid-19: Vaxine research director
TEHRAN - Professor Nikolai Petrovsky, the Vaxine research director, rules out the possibility that the world can easily eradicate Covid-19 in a short time before immunizing the entire people in the world against the virus.
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2021-08-08 16:03
No problem in providing funds needed to import Covid-19 vaccines: CBI
TEHRAN – The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has said the bank has no problem in providing the necessary funding for the imports of Conid-19 vaccines into the country, IRIB reported on Sunday.
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2021-08-07 19:47
Spikogen vaccine enters third phase of clinical trial
TEHRAN – The Iranian-Australian coronavirus vaccine Spikogen started the third phase of the clinical trial with the participation of 17,000 people on Saturday.
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2021/08/02
Experts sound alarm of global consequences over vaccine inequality
The reluctance of rich countries to distribute their excess coronavirus vaccines to poorer nations has prompted warnings from global financial and health organizations of the dangers that lie ahead.
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2021-08-01 17:06
More 200,000 doses of COVIRAN vaccine delivered
TEHRAN – Some 200,000 doses of COVIRAN BAREKAT vaccine have been recently delivered to the Ministry of Health for public vaccination, Hassan Jalili, the vaccine’s production manager, said on Sunday.
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2021-07-31 17:12
“Noora” vaccine successfully passing first phase of clinical trial
TEHRAN – “Noora" coronavirus vaccine, domestically made by Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences affiliated to the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), is successfully passing the first phase of the clinical trial.
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2021-07-26 21:56
Zarif meets with Cuba's Finlay president to facilitate vaccine production
TEHRAN — Dr. Vicente Verez Bencomo, president of the Cuban Finlay Vaccine Production Institute, who has traveled to Tehran, met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday.
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2021-07-26 20:00
Cov Pars to produce 1m doses of vaccine monthly
TEHRAN – One million doses of “Razi Cov Pars” vaccine will be produced each month as of the sixth calendar month Shahrivar (starting August 23), Mohammad-Hassan Fallah Mehrabadi, deputy head of the Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute has announced.
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2021-07-25 16:06
COVIRAN BAREKAT in process to WHO’s registration
TEHRAN – COVIRAN BAREKAT, the first Iranian-made coronavirus vaccine, is in the process to be registered by the World Health Organization, Asghar Abdoli, an expert in the vaccine production project, has stated.