More than 500 deaths and nearly 40,000 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours in Iran.
According to both indicators, this is a black record for the Islamic Republic, which has been in the fifth wave of the infection since the end of June, BNR writes.
The state media described the situation in Iranian hospitals as pre-crisis.
The country’s new president, Ibrahim Raisi, has made it a priority for his administration to speed up vaccination, which began in February.
In half a year, only 3.7 million of the 83 million Iranians have been fully vaccinated. Financially pressured by US sanctions, it is difficult for the authorities to transfer money abroad. This has a negative effect on vaccine imports, and both domestically produced vaccines are still produced in very small quantities.
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