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Iran is considered the most affected country in the region by Corona
The Iranian Ministry of Health announced the registration of 80 new deaths and 8,066 cases of Coronavirus during the last 24 hours.
The official spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education, Sima Sadat Lari, said Thursday that the total number of injured in the country has reached 1,550,142 injured, while the total number of deaths reached 59,264 deaths.
Earlier, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Tehran had imposed a ban on the supply of anti-virus vaccines from the United States.
The head of the Iranian medical system, Mohammad Reza Zafarkandi, also revealed Tehran’s plans to buy two million doses of vaccines from India, China and Russia before the end of next March, in addition to the country continuing its efforts to develop a vaccine. home against Corona, expected to be ready next spring.
Iran is the country most affected by the epidemic in the region, a year after the first Iranian citizen was infected by the Corona virus in the city of Qom, south of the capital, Tehran.
Iran began a vaccination campaign last Tuesday, two weeks after announcing that it no longer had cities with a “red” risk level.
The vaccination campaign focuses on workers in the intensive care departments of hospitals, while authorities wait for enough vaccines to arrive to offer citizens.
On Friday, Iran received 100,000 doses of the two million doses of the Russian vaccine (Sputnik V), and official media said Russia could increase the number of doses to five million doses and allow Iran to produce the vaccine locally.
Iran plans to vaccinate 1.3 million people before March 20.
According to data from the Health Ministry, Iran recorded more than 1.5 million HIV infections and 58,883 deaths, while the 74 deaths announced today, Saturday, are the lowest in eight months.
In December, Iran began clinical trials of the first of three local candidate vaccines.
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