Iran: start of clinical trials of a first vaccine against Covid-19
Iran is the first among Muslim countries to embark on vaccine production despite US sanctions and severe restrictions placed on the country.
56 volunteers will receive the vaccine before a larger test (illustration image).
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After several Western countries, but also China and Russia, Iran has started the first human tests for the manufacture of the vaccine against the coronavirus.
First country affected by Covid-19 in the Middle East, Iran is the country most affected in the region by the pandemic.
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With our correspondent in Tehran
,
Siavosh Ghazi
Iran is the first state among Muslim countries to launch vaccine production despite US sanctions and severe restrictions imposed.
In front of television cameras, a vaccine was tested on three people.
In this first phase, 56 volunteers will receive the vaccine before a larger test.
According to the director of the Barekat Foundation, Mohammad Mokber, Iran could soon start mass production of the vaccine: “
We will have the capacity to produce within two or three weeks one and a half million doses of vaccine per month.
The equipment that is being installed will give us the possibility of producing 12 million doses of vaccines per month.
"
Twenty million doses of vaccines purchased abroad
Three other Iranian companies are also working on the production of the vaccine.
But at the same time, the government announced that a channel had been found to buy nearly
twenty million doses of the vaccine overseas
, despite
US bank sanctions
that bar virtually any foreign transaction.
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To read: Iran: controversy and indignation around the vaccine against the coronavirus
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