Healthcare

Iran says it’s begun the third phase of the clinical trial of its Covid vaccine dubbed Fakhra.

Iran said on Monday it has vaccinated 1,590,000 people over the past twenty four hours bringing the total number of administered coronavirus shots to over 36 million.

A group of anti-vaccine protesters have rallied outside the Iranian Interior Ministry in Tehran.

Iran has lifted its nighttime driving ban that had been put in place as part of the efforts to curb the Covid pandemic.

Head of Iran’s National Taskforce against the Coronavirus Pandemic says over 49 million doses of vaccines have so far entered the country and that will rise to more than 130 million doses within two months.

Iran’s Barakat vaccine’s second production line was set in motion last week and it’s expected to produce 6 to 8 million doses of vaccine per month.

Iran is trying to accelerate its coronavirus vaccination campaign to inoculate over 2,000,000 people each day.

Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi has reaffirmed his administration’s stance to support domestic production of Covid-19 vaccines.

Iran says it has administered 958,933 doses of Covid vaccine from Wednesday to Thursday. That’s a record in the number of shots given in a single day since the Covid vaccination drive started in the country.

Phase three of the clinical trial of the Iranian-made coronavirus vaccine Fakhra has got underway.

The pace of the coronavirus pandemic is slowing down in Iran as the number of fatalities and infections keep dropping in over 20 provinces.

The Mu variant of COVID-19 - which scientists fear could be more transmissible than Delta - has now been detected in all US states with the exception of Nebraska.

Iran says it has set a record in vaccinating citizens against Covid-19 in a single day, injecting 884,810 doses from Monday to Tuesday.

An experienced physician in the city of Raz and Jargalan in northeastern Iran has lost his life due to infection with Covid-19, after visiting what he said were 24-thousand coronavirus patients.

Covid-19 kills 610 more people in Iran.

Iran has begun the third and final phase of clinical test of domestically produced coronavirus vaccine Razi Cov Pars.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 219.8 million on Saturday, with more than 4.55 million deaths, the latest data from Johns Hopkins University showed.

The Iranian health ministry has denied media reports that some two million doses of the Sputnik coronavirus vaccine are produced in Iran monthly and taken to Russia.

Covid-19 kills 595 more people in Iran.

A consignment of coronavirus vaccines containing well over 1.4 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine of the COVAX Facility has arrived Iran.

Iran will accelerate its coronavirus vaccination campaign in the coming weeks, as the government plans to import tens of millions of COVID-19 vaccines soon.

The seventeenth shipment of Coronavirus vaccine arrived at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport Thursday morning.

Amid the outbreak of corona pandemic throughout Iran, a video of an Iranian nurse who sings songs for the patients has gone viral recently. In this video, Forough Ahmadi who works at Al-Zahra Hospital of Isfahan province in central Iran, recites poems and sings songs for the patients and her colleagues to give them peace of mind.

Covid-19 deaths have hit a record high in Iran since the pandemic began in early 2020, with more than 700 killed in the past 24 hours, officials said on Tuesday.

Iran is to import some 20 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine by the end of 2021 as the country presses on with efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus.