Fifth shipment of coronavirus vaccine "arrives in Iran"

A spokesman for the Iranian Red Crescent Society announced on Thursday the arrival of the fifth shipment of coronavirus vaccines into the country.

According to Mohammad Hassan Ghosian Moghadam, at this stage, "one million doses of the coronavirus vaccine were imported through Imam Khomeini Airport."

He stated that the shipment was imported through the "efforts" of this organization and delivered to the Ministry of Health, but did not provide any details about the name of the vaccine or the exporting country.

On Thursday, June 17, the Iranian Red Crescent Society announced the arrival of two million doses of the coronavirus vaccine into the country, but an hour later it explained that only half of this shipment had arrived in the country.

It appears that the fifth shipment is the other half of this two million package that has now arrived in Iran.

The latest statistics from the Iranian Ministry of Health on the vaccination process against Corona show that so far less than four and a half million people in the country have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

The slow vaccination process in the country has been accompanied by warnings about a fifth wave of the coronavirus, a virus that has killed 85,095 people according to official figures from the Ministry of Health, but unofficial figures are two to three times that number.

Complete vaccination of the Iranian population requires the administration of at least 150 million doses of vaccine.

Source: Radio Farda