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The fourth wave of the coronavirus epidemic has started in two provinces of Iran, it said on Saturday. Hasan Róhan President of Iran.
Unfortunately, the fourth wave has started in two provinces and could start in several other provinces if we do not comply with health regulations.
Róchán was cited by the presidential press service.
The number of coronavirus infections in Iran has increased in recent days. On April 1, for the first time since early December, the number of new confirmed infections per day now exceeded 11,000.
On Saturday, the Iranian Ministry of Health reported 11,420 new infections, with 1,920,394 people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Iran since the epidemic began in February 2020, of which 62,999 died from the Covid disease. -19 induced by the virus. The number of new deaths per day is 123, said Sima Sadat Lari, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health. The number of healers is 1,642,418, the intensive care unit cares for 4,024 patients.
Currently, 47 Iranian cities have the highest red alert rating and 126 have a medium orange risk rating.
On February 2, the free voluntary vaccination campaign began in Iran with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. The first shipment from the Chinese company Sinopharm arrived on February 28 and on March 11, 150,000 doses of the vaccine from the Indian company Bharat were shipped. Biotech. With a total of 2 million doses of vaccine received so far, doctors, nurses, residents of some nursing homes and some garbage trucks have been vaccinated.
Use of the Iranian-made vaccine is scheduled to begin in April. Mosztafa Ganei, the scientific director of the Iranian operational court said on Saturday that mass vaccination is scheduled to start in September. By then, the necessary vaccinations will be received.
The health ministry originally planned to vaccinate all residents of the 83 million countries with foreign and domestic vaccines by August. The plan failed due to the sanction against Iran, but from now on companies can also import the vaccine with the permission of the ministry.
(MTI)
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