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Iran Starts COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign With Russian Sputnik V Jabs
After receiving 10,000 doses, Iran on February 9 embarked on the coronavirus immunisation campaign with the rollout of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine.
Iran on February 9 embarked on the coronavirus immunisation campaign with the rollout of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine. In a broadcast address, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani signalled the start of the campaign. The Iranian health minister’s son was among those who received the first shots.
Sputnik V was approved by the Russian health ministry in August last year and has been used in multiple nations for mass inoculations. Sputnik is based on a modified version of adenovirus, a common cold virus. The vector stripped of its disease-causing genes and modified to carry genetic instructions for making the coronavirus spike protein. This prompts the cells to cause an immune response which eventually protects against the SARS-CoV-2.