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TEHRAN – Eight homegrown COVID-19 vaccines have been listed among the 48 promising candidates from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Eight COVID-19 vaccines manufactured in Iran are on the WHO list, and of course another eight are also likely to be included on the list, wrote Kianoush Jahanpour, a spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration, on his Twitter account. Saturday. .
Almost all possible strategies to develop the coronavirus vaccine in Iran have passed the laboratory production stage, he added.
On Friday, Mostafa Ghane’ei, an official with the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology, said that the human injection of the homegrown COVID-19 vaccine will start in the Iranian calendar month of Khordad (May 22 to June 21, 2021).
Iraj Harirchi, the deputy health minister, said that in Iran, 12 groups are making efforts to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus, three of which have passed animal testing.
Last week, Health Minister Saeed Namaki expressed his hope that the country will introduce homegrown COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 19, 2021).
The National Coronavirus Control Headquarters will implement a plan, according to which all occupations, except emergency services and basic food suppliers, will be closed for two weeks in more than 100 cities in an attempt to curb the virus, which will enter validity. November 21.
Coronavirus cases, deaths on the rise
At a press conference on Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Sima-Sadat Lari confirmed 11,203 new cases of COVID-19 infection, bringing the total number of infections to 749,525. He added that so far 552,747 patients have been recovered, but 5,642 still remain in critical condition of the disease.
Over the past 24 hours, daily coronavirus deaths and new cases reached a record high, as 452 patients lost their lives, bringing the total number of deaths to 41,034, it added.
Lari noted that 5,464,191 tests for COVID-19 have been conducted across the country so far. He said high-risk “red” areas include Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, East Azarbaijan, South Khorasan, Semnan, Qazvin, Lorestan, Ardebil, Khuzestan, Kermanshah, Kohgiluyeh-Boyerahmad, Gilan, Bushehr, Zanjan, Ilam provinces. , Khorasan Razavi, Mazandaran, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, Alborz, Western Azarbaijan, Markazi, Kerman, North Khorasan, Hamedan, Yazd and Kordestan.
Hormozgan, Fars and Golestan and Sistan-Baluchistan provinces are also on alert.
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