Iran’s Minister of Health Saeed Namaki said on Monday that the country has reached one of the world’s best and most effective COVID-19 vaccines in Pasteur Institute of Iran.
Namaki made the remarks during a ceremony in the central city of Isfahan where he began the third phase of clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine jointly made by Pasteur Institute of Iran and Finlay Institute of Cuba.
“When a country makes vaccines, it also has many other modern technologies,” the minister said, adding, “we are one of the most proud countries in this field,”
He said that Iran is the most brilliant regional country in producing COVID-19 vaccine.
The minister said that he has thoroughly carried out the first and second phases of the clinical trial of the vaccine and then allowed the third stage with peace of mind.
Some 496 more Iranians have died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours bringing the total deaths to 70,070, Iran’s Health Ministry announced on Monday.
With the 496 new victims, the country’s total COVID-19 deaths mounted to 70,070, Health Ministry said.
Some 21,026 new cases of infection with the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours and 3,734 patients have been hospitalized, it added.
It noted that 1,892,229 patients out of a total of 2,417,230 infected people have recovered or been discharged from the hospitals.
Some 5,244 other COVID-19 patients are in critical conditions and being treated in intensive care units, it stated.
It added that 15,313,657 tests have so far been carried out in Iran.
Source: IRNA