The Iranian companies are among the global institutions which are currently in the advanced stages of vaccine production, Namaki was quoted as saying…reports Asian Lite News
Iran’s Health Minister Saeed Namaki said on Monday that four Iranian companies have started human trials of Covid-19 vaccine, media reported.
The Iranian companies are among the global institutions which are currently in the advanced stages of vaccine production, Namaki was quoted as saying.
Namaki also said that amid the new global surge of the epidemic, Iran tries to control the disease by carrying out more than 1,00,000 laboratory tests per day, the Xinhua news agency reported.
To date, a total of 184 countries and economies have joined COVAX, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
As the world is struggling to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, countries including Germany, France, Russia, the US and the US are racing to find a vaccine.
According to the WHO, as of November 3, there were 202 Covid-19 candidate vaccines being developed worldwide, and 47 of them were in clinical trials.
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