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The first batch of Russia s Sputnik V vaccine has arrived in Iran as the country prepares to launch a COVID-19 inoculation campaign aimed at curbing the usage of Western medicines.
The state news agency IRNA showed video of the vaccine delivery being transferred off a Mahan Airline flight at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran on February 4.
Iran s ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali, said the second and third deliveries of the vaccine were due to be sent to Tehran on February 18 and 28.
Mohammad Reza Shansaz, the head of Iran s drug regulator,
said earlier this week he expected Iran to initially receive 500,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine.