Iran to apply second round of Covid-19 vaccine
Iran to apply second round of Covid-19 vaccine
Tehran, Jan 10 (Prensa Latina) Iran began applying on Sunday a second round of immunization to the Covid-19 with the vaccine candidate COVIRAN Barekat, after verifying no adverse reaction in its first test.
The secretary of the medical ethics research committee of the Iranian Health Ministry, Ehsan Shamsi Kushqui, assured that there were no side effects in seven volunteers during the initial inoculation.
Kushqui explained that all participants will be re-vaccinated within the next 28 days.
In the initial stage of clinical trials with COVIRAN Barekat, 56 people will test the safety of the antidote, he said.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist-run Cuba said late on Friday it had signed an accord with Iran to transfer the technology for its most advanced coronavirus vaccine candidate and carry out last-stage clinical trials of the shot in the Islamic Republic.
FILE PHOTO: Iranian soldiers leave Imamzadeh Saleh shrine after Tehran reopened following a two-week shutdown, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, Iran December 5, 2020. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
The allies are both under fierce U.S. sanctions that exempt medicine yet often put foreign pharmaceutical companies off trading with them and as such they seek to be self-reliant. Both are also strapped for cash.