Iran Fighting Pandemic with Its Own Vaccine Due to US Sanctions

This is the first time Iran has tested a human-made coronavirus vaccine.

Iran says it will fight the coronavirus with its own vaccine, even if it cannot bring in vaccines from outside due to US sanctions.

The tick, invented by Iran, is called Cove-Iranblacing.

The vaccine was invented by one of their companies, Shifa Farmed, according to Setad, a large state-owned company. Upon successful completion of this vaccine test, they will be able to produce 12 million doses of vaccine per month.

The volunteers who are being vaccinated on an experimental basis are the officials of this state organization.

According to local media reports, the daughter of Mohammad Mokhbar, a senior government official, was first vaccinated. The purpose of this vaccine is to build trust among the people.

In a statement broadcast on state television, Iranian Health Minister Sayed Namaki said: "We want to send a message to the Iranian people that we believe in the injections we give to the human body. I will accept it willingly. "

Meanwhile, a senior government official, Mohammad Mokhbar, said that in a few weeks, Iran would be able to make the vaccine public.

Since the onset of the epidemic, 55,000 people have died of coronavirus in Iran. Iran has the highest number of deaths from the virus in the Middle East. About 12 lakh more people have been affected.

Iran's leaders have repeatedly complained that they are unable to vaccinate against the coronavirus because of US sanctions. Medicines and humanitarian relief, however, were said to be excluded from the scope of the ban.

Iran has joined the Kovacs program to distribute the World Health Organization's coronavirus vaccine to all countries.

Iran's Red Crescent Society says it plans to import a vaccine invented by China in addition to the government's initiative.