Tehran /
After conducting the clinical trials of the Cuban vaccine Sovereign 02 in Iran, ehe director of the Pasteur Institute, Alireza Biglarí, reported this Saturday that the biological has a 100 percent efficiency against the worst cases of covid-19.
“The efficacy of two doses of the vaccine Sovereign 02 and the booster dose, Soberana Plus, in the third phase of the Cuban clinical trial it was 91.2 percent, with 100 percent operation in serious cases and deaths, “Biglarí said according to the official Iranian news agency IRNA.
Iran is in the fifth wave of the pandemic of covid-19 and much of the country is affected by Delta variant (India) which has a high transmitting power.
The Vice Minister of Health for Hygiene Affairs, There 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 percent, does not reach 85 percent, the measures to combat the virus will not be effective.” .
The Iranian Minister of Health, Said Namakí, reported on June 29 that his country had issued a permit for the emergency use of the Sovereign 02 vaccine of the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV), in which Iran has cooperated in clinical trials and which is produced locally by the Pasteur Institute of Iran.
The vaccination campaign in Iran is too slow due to the dose shortage received from abroad, mainly from Russia Sputnik V, the China Sinopharm and the British-Swedish AstraZeneca.
Iran’s Customs and Technical Deputy, Mehrdad Yamalí Orunaqí, reported today that “in the last six months eight million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been imported into the country.”
More than 6.7 million people, out of a population of over 80 million, have received at least one dose of one anticovid vaccine in Iran, mostly health personnel and over 70 years.
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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