TEHRAN, Iran, July 14
Trend:
Iran will receive another shipment of COVID-19 vaccine on July 15 (about 3 million of AstraZeneca doses from Japan), said the head of Iran's Presidential Office Mahmoud Vaezi, Trend reports via Mehr News Agency.
"In addition to people over 60 and those with Underlying Medical Conditions, those who have vast communication with people, have been added to the target groups for vaccination,” Vaezi told reporters on the sidelines of the cabinet meeting.
Referring to the re-opening of schools and universities, he said that Iran needs to speed up the vaccination.
“Some 1.5 million doses of vaccine will be imported from another country every week,” he said, adding that the process of making domestic vaccines is also going well.
Iran continues to monitor the coronavirus situation in the country. Reportedly, the disease was brought to Iran by a businessman from Iran's Qom city, who went on a business trip to China, despite official warnings. The man died later from the disease.
The Islamic Republic of Iran only announced its first infections and deaths from the coronavirus on Feb. 19. The pandemic hit a wide range of businesses in Iran since its outbreak in mid-February.
The outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan - which is an international transport hub - began at a fish market in late December 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Some sources claim the coronavirus outbreak started as early as November 2019.