The new Iranian government has approved the Covid-19 vaccine developed by US companies Johnson & Johnson, said a senior official on Thursday, when the Islamic Republic faces a wave of fifth infection.
The announcement came eight months after Ayatollah’s highest leader Ali Khamenei banned the imports of vaccines made by the United States and the United Kingdom – although Iran had been developed by a vaccine developed by Western companies but produced elsewhere.
Administration of Ebrahim President Rice is under public pressure to expand its vaccine source as an installation of infection in the most deadly wave he has seen.
“Johnson & Johnson’s single dose vaccine has been approved,” Head of the Iranian Food and Narcotics Administration, Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz, quoted by Iranian media.
He did not say where the vaccine would be produced or referred to a ban.
In January, Khamenei banned the government from importing Covid-19 vaccines from the United States and the United Kingdom, said the two countries “he then said the ban was in the vaccine made in these countries.
On Thursday, Sputnik’s component Single Russia said Russian vaccine Light has also been approved.
“Fortunately, the Corona vaccine basket registered in Iran has become very diverse and large,” he added.
Iran tried to accelerate vaccination by using import doses – including Sputnik V, Indian covaxin made by Bharat Biotech, and Oxford shots / AstraZeneca developed in the UK produced by Russia R-Pharm Group and Astrazeneca-Skbio in South Korea In the last 24 hours, bringing the total case to 5,378,408 in Iran, the country A worst in the Middle East.
Death rose 6981 to 116,072.