The director of Pasteur Institute of Iran, Alireza Biglarí, reported this Saturday that the Sovereign Cuban vaccine 02, in which Iran has cooperated in clinical trials, is 100% effective against the worst cases of Covid-19.
“The effectiveness 2-dose vaccine Sovereign 02 and the booster dose, Soberana Plus, in the third phase of the clinical trial Cuban was 91.2%, with 100% operation in serious cases and deaths, “said Biglarí according to the agency Iranian news officer IRNA.
Iran is in the fifth Covid-19 surge and much of the country is affected by the delta variant (india) which has a high transmission power.
The Deputy Minister of Health for Hygiene Affairs, Alí Reza Raisí, criticized today the decrease in compliance with the protocols by the population and warned that “if compliance with these protocols, which is currently 66%, does not reach 85%, measures to combat the virus will not be effective. “
The Iranian Minister of Health, Saíd Namakí, reported on June 29 that his country had issued the permit for the emergency use of the Sovereign 02 vaccine from the Finlay Institute of Vaccines (IFV), in which Iran has cooperated in clinical trials and which is produced locally by the Pasteur Institute of Iran.
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The vaccination campaign in Iran is too slow due to the shortage of doses received from abroad, mainly from the Russian Sputnik V, the Chinese Sinopharm and the British-Swedish AstraZeneca.
Iran’s Technical and Customs Deputy, Mehrdad Yamalí Orunaqí, reported today that “in the last six months, eight million doses of vaccines have been imported against coronavirus in the country”.
More than 6.7 million people, out of a population of over 80 million, have received at least one dose of an anticovid vaccine in Iran, most of them healthcare personnel and over 70 years of age.
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According to data offered today by the Ministry of Health, a total of 3 million 355 thousand 786 people have been infected with the virus since the beginning of the pandemic, although more than 3 million have already overcome the disease, and 85 thousand 694 have died.
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