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2021-01-13 19:02
72% of Iranians ready to receive homegrown coronavirus vaccine
TEHRAN – Some 72 percent of Iranians have expressed readiness to receive the domestically-made coronavirus vaccine, Kianoush Jahanpour, head of the Information Center of the Ministry of Health, said on Wednesday.
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2021-01-12 17:47
Iranian coronavirus vaccine enters second stage of human trial
TEHRAN – The second dose of the Iranian coronavirus vaccine was injected into three volunteers, who were tested for the first time two weeks ago, IRNA reported on Tuesday.
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2021-01-11 17:02
Iran-Cuba COVID-19 vaccine successfully completes phase 1 human trial
TEHRAN – The COVID-19 vaccine, co-produced by Iran and Cuba, has passed the first phase of human testing with success.
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2021-01-11 15:02
Letter to Guterres: Iran criticizes WHO for biased support of ‘inadequately-tested American vaccine'
TEHRAN – The Academy of Medical Sciences of Iran has written a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, criticizing the World Health Organization for being biased in favor of inadequately-tested COVID-19 vaccines produced in the United States.
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2021-01-11 13:06
Iran plans to import AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from India, China, Russia
TEHRAN – Iran plans to import some two million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from India, China, and Russia by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20).
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2021-01-10 11:35
Rouhani: Foreign companies wanted to test their vaccine on our people
TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani says some foreign companies have requested to test their vaccines on Iranian people but the officials have rejected it.
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2021-01-09 20:12
More than two-thirds of U.S. Covid-19 vaccines left unused
More than two-thirds of the 15 million coronavirus vaccines shipped within the U.S. have gone unused, U.S. health officials said.
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2021-01-09 17:50
Tehran, Havana form ‘strategic alliance’ to produce COVID-19 vaccine
TEHRAN - Kianoush Jahanpour, spokesman for Iran's Food and Drug Administration, has said Iran and Cuba have formed a ‘strategic alliance’ through working jointly on a project for producing a potential coronavirus vaccine.
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2021-01-06 17:06
Iran pays for buying 16.8m doses of COVAX vaccine
TEHRAN – The Central Bank of Iran has announced an advance payment to purchase 16.8 million doses of coronavirus vaccine through the COVAX, a global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
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2021-01-03 17:47
Next group of volunteers to receive Iranian COVID-19 vaccine
TEHRAN – The domestically-made coronavirus vaccine will be injected into four more volunteers this week provided that the health ministry’s approval is obtained.
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2021-01-01 17:42
Iran, Cuba coproducing COVID-19 vaccine
TEHRAN - The Pasteur Institute of Iran in collaboration with a Cuban company is working on producing a potential vaccine for COVID-19.
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2020-12-30 18:23
Iranian company working on oral coronavirus vaccine
TEHRAN – An Iranian knowledge-based company is trying to develop an oral vaccine to fight COVID-19, Hossein Vatanpour, an official with the Ministry of Health, has announced.
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2020-12-29 18:15
Existing vaccines are effective against mutated coronavirus: Iranian expert
TEHRAN – The COVID-19 vaccines, which have been so far produced in the world are also effective on the mutated virus, so people who receive the vaccines will be protected against the new virus strain, Massoud Mardani, a member of the National Headquarters for Coronavirus Control, has said.
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2020-12-29 16:42
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Iran tests first homegrown coronavirus vaccine
TEHRAN – COVIRAN BAREKAT, the first coronavirus vaccine made by Iranian researchers, was unveiled and injected into three volunteers during a ceremony on Tuesday.
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2020-12-28 18:10
Homegrown COVID-19 vaccine to be mass-produced in 40 days
TEHRAN – The production line of the Iranian coronavirus vaccine with a capacity of 1.5 million doses per month will be launched within the next 40 days.
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2020-12-25 21:23
Over 27,000 Iranians ready to test home-grown coronavirus vaccine
TEHRAN – Some 27,079 people have so far expressed readiness to test the domestically-made COVID-19 vaccine across the country, head of the information center of Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam has said.
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2020-12-19 17:25
56 volunteers in Iran to receive homegrown COVID vaccine on Monday
TEHRAN – Iran will start testing its first domestically-made coronavirus vaccine by injecting it to 56 volunteers aged 18 to 50 years on Monday.
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2020-12-12 17:37
Iran to start testing ‘homegrown’ COVID-19 vaccine next week
TEHRAN – Iran will start injecting volunteers with its home-grown coronavirus vaccine next week, IRIB reported on Saturday.
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2020-12-11 18:39
Could COVID-19 immunity passports help life return to normal?
TEHRAN – The idea of immunity passports is rising worldwide to swiftly recognize who has been immunized and who has not. Some are calling the concept a ‘COVID-19 passport’.
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2020-11-14 10:59
Injecting homegrown COVID-19 vaccine to start by mid-June 2021
TEHRAN – The human injection of the homegrown COVID-19 vaccine will be started in the Iranian calendar month of Khordad (May 22-June 21, 2021).
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2020-11-03 17:07
12 groups endeavor to develop COVID-19 vaccine
TEHRAN – In Iran, 12 groups are making efforts to develop coronavirus vaccine, three of which have passed the animal testing, Iraj Harirchi, the deputy minister of health, has announced.
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2020-10-20 17:12
Iranian-made COVID-19 vaccine to enter human trial in early November
TEHRAN – Iran will start testing its homegrown coronavirus vaccine on humans in early November, Health Minister Saeed Namaki said on Tuesday.
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2020-10-12 11:25
Iran has good news about Covid-19 vaccine: minister
TEHRAN – The Iranian health minister announced on Sunday that he had “good news” about a Covid-19 vaccine being developed in the country.
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2020-10-10 22:34
Iran sets fines for violating COVID-19 measures
TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani announced on Saturday that individuals and business owners who do not wear masks leaving home or at their place of work will be fined from 500,000 rials (some $12 at the official rate of 42,000 rials) up to 10 million rials (around $240).
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2020-09-12 18:28
Iranian COVID-19 vaccine to undergo clinical trial soon
TEHRAN – The Iranian-made coronavirus vaccine has passed the initial laboratory phase and will be tested on humans over the next 2 months, Jalil Kouhpayehzadeh, the chancellor of Iran University of Medical Sciences, has announced.
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2020/08/19
By Salman Parviz
Race for Covid-19 vaccine
Putin announces world’s first Covid-19 vaccine
As the number of coronavirus cases around the world surpassed 20 million mark, scientists and pharmaceutical industries around the world are racing towards developing the vaccine for the infectious Covid-19 disease that has caused 772,000 deaths along with 13.5 million recoveries.
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2020-08-14 17:09
Iran welcomes Russia’s success in producing COVID-19 vaccine
TEHRAN – Iran welcomes Russia's success and achievements in COVID-19 vaccine production and believes that the international community should also welcome it, the Iranian ambassador to Russia has said.
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2020-07-04 23:03
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Health network playing a key role in fighting coronavirus
TEHRAN - Jafar Sadeq Tabrizi, the director of health network department at the Ministry of Health, has said the health network has been playing a key role in fighting the coronavirus pandemic mostly through holding seminars, equipping medical centers, and implementing screening tests and family physician programs across the country.
