Iran says received 150,000 doses of India’s Covid jab
Iran has received a shipment of 150,000 doses of an Indian Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin, local media reported, as the Islamic republic combats the Middle East’s deadliest outbreak of the illness.
“The coronavirus vaccine shipment from India arrived at (Tehran’s) Imam Khomeini airport containing 150,000 doses,” deputy customs chief Mehrdad Jamal Arvanaghi told ISNA news agency.
Iran, which is in its second month of a vaccination campaign, is to receive another 375,000 doses from India next week, the health ministry’s public relations head Kianoush Jahanpour announced on Twitter.
The country of more than 80 million has lost more than 61,000 lives out of over 1.7 million cases of Covid-19 infection, according to health ministry figures.
Tehran, using multiple sources, started its national vaccination campaign on February 9, but the number of people inoculated to date has not been announced.