The Foreign Ministers of Cuba and Iran. AFP
On January 1, a small story in the Cuban media was all but overlooked: Cuba and the Pasteur Institute of Iran reached an agreement for the production of an Iranian vaccine against Covid-19. While in Iran the news was delivered by the spokesman of its Organization for Food and Medicines, and then touted with enthusiasm by various official media, including state television, almost all the official media in Cuba preferred to ignore it. Only one local radio station, Radio Bayamo, reported the story.
The Cuban regime has sought to hush-hush the carrying out of clinical trials of the Iranian vaccine in Havana. The second phase of experimentation in humans, according to the brief account from Radio Bayamo, will also be conducted on the island. If the results are good, they will proceed with them in Tehran as well.
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The Iranian supreme leader says that he does not trust the vaccine made by the United States and the United Kingdom and bans its entry into the country.
In March 2020, when Qom was declared the epicenter of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and Chinese seminary pupils its agents, the city s representative in parliament announced the situation to be critical and requested the closure of the Masoumeh Shrine.
Mohammad Saeidi, the Friday prayer imam of Qom, protested against the request backed-by the health authorities, saying: “We consider the Shrine a healing center or Dar al-Shifa. That is, people can come here and get healing for their mental and physical illnesses. It has to remain open; people should be able to come here.”
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Cuba To Test Covid Vaccine Candidate In Iran
01/09/21 AT 6:37 PM
Cuba will test its most advanced Covid vaccine candidate, in Iran, the research center that developed it announced on Saturday.
State-run Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV) and the Pasteur Institute of Iran signed an agreement in Havana that will see a Phase 3 clinical trial in Iran, to move forward faster in immunization against Covid-19 in both countries, the IFV announced on Twitter.
The news came on the heels of Iran s supreme leader on Friday banning the import of American and British-produced vaccines against Covid-19, saying they were completely untrustworthy.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a tweet, accompanied by the hashtag #CoronaVaccine: It s not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations.
Four people who arrived from Brazil were found to be infected by a different variant from the one found in the UK. Meanwhile, Pope Francis has hit out at people who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine. DW has more.