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Iran’s Health Ministry receives over 1mn doses of imported COVID vaccines

Sunday, 15 August 2021 10:18 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 15 August 2021 10:25 AM ]

Chinese COVID-19 vaccines are being unloaded from a Mahan Air plane at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran.

The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) says it has delivered the 14th consignment of imported COVID-19 vaccines to the Health Ministry.

IRCS president Karim Hemmati said on Sunday that the imported consignment, including 1.11 million doses of vaccines, is the second over the past week.

“With the import of the 14th vaccine consignment to the country, the Iranian Red Crescent Society has done its best to accelerate the process of public vaccination and this process continues,” he added.

Hemmati also noted that the 14 consignments, which included a total number of 15.96 million vaccine doses, had been transferred to the country by 16 flights.

Hemmati gave assurances that the IRCS will stand by the Iranian people and the medical staff in the current difficult juncture and continue imports until they are fully vaccinated.

In addition to producing domestic vaccines, the Islamic Republic has imported consignments of vaccines from several foreign suppliers amid the illegal US sanctions that have seriously hampered the country’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Iran has so far administered more than 18 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Nearly four million people have so far received two shots.

According to the latest figures, 4,389,085 people have been infected with COVID-19 in Iran and 97,208 people have died.

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