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Saturday, 17 April 2021 10:03 PM
[ Last Update: Saturday, 17 April 2021 10:03 PM ] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says approximately 1.4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines will be administered in the country by Friday, in a bid to vaccinate high-risk groups.
“By [Friday], approximately 1.4 million vaccines will be injected, God willing,” Rouhani said in remarks on Friday.
He said the first high-risk group, which includes 7 to 8 million people older than 65, will be soon vaccinated in Iran.
After they are vaccinated, the president continued, “we will move ahead to the second [high-risk] group.”
“All the efforts are aimed at, God willing, importing vaccines and providing people with them … and then the people would be able to move on from this issue toward a more promising future,” he added.
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Monday, 05 April 2021 7:08 AM
[ Last Update: Monday, 05 April 2021 7:34 AM ] Iran began its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on February 9. (File photo by IRNA)
Iran s Health Ministry says the first shipment of the World Health Organization’s COVAX global vaccine plan, containing more than 700,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine, has been sent to Tehran from Amsterdam.
“The first shipment of vaccines prepared by the COVAX scheme, containing more than 700,000 does of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by SK-Bio Institute of South Korea was loaded and sent to Tehran from the Amsterdam route minutes ago,” Kianoush Jahanpour, the spokesman for Iran Food and Drug Administration (IFDA), wrote in a tweet late on Sunday.