The first shipment of corona vaccine landed at Imam Khomeini Airport on Thursday, February 7, and the first shipment of corona vaccine was delivered to the Ministry of Health. The second shipment was sent to Iran on February 20. These shipments amounted to 120,000 doses.
So far, 410,000 doses of vaccine had been dispatched from Russia to Iran, and taking the fifth consignment into account, the total number of vaccines sent to Iran exceeds half a million doses.
The Russian Sputnik V has been approved in 57 countries. According to research, the vaccine has an efficacy of 91.6% and, it is effective against variants of the virus.
“Kazem Jalali” Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation February 10, 2017, in a conversation on the sidelines of the visit of “Mohammad Reza Shanesaz” Deputy Minister of Health and Medical Education and Head of the Food and Drug Administration to Moscow on sending Russian vaccine shipments “Sputnik” He had said: the next shipments of the vaccine will be sent at the end of February, the first decade of March and the second decade of March and April.
