0514 GMT March 06, 2021
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Researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Global Center for Pathogen Research & Human Health, the US, have developed a promising new COVID-19 vaccine candidate that utilizes nanotechnology and has shown strong efficacy in preclinical disease models.
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The COVAX vaccine-sharing program said on Tuesday it will deliver 237 million doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot to 142 countries by the end of May as it steps up the global roll-out of its vaccine supplies.
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Deputy Head of Razi Serum Research and Production Institute Dr. Mohammad Hassan Fallah-Mehrabadi said here on Tuesday that simultaneous with the last human testing phases of Razi Covo Pars COVID-19 Vaccine launching of its mass production line, too, was approved.
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The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine may be less effective in people with obesity, data suggests.
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Iranian Health Minister Saeid Namaki said on Friday that Iran will turn into a major coronavirus vaccine producer in the next Iranian year, which begins on March 20.
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Dean of Iran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran has expressed hope that the Iranian-made Razi Covo-Pars Covid-19 Vaccine will be available to public by midsummer.
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Iran’s CovIran Barekat, the country’s first domestically-developed COVID-19 vaccine, has shown 90-percent effectiveness, as confirmed by the first phase of human trials of the inoculation.
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Rich countries are on course to have over a billion more doses of COVID-19 vaccines than they need, leaving poorer nations scrambling for leftover supplies as the world seeks to curb the coronavirus pandemic, a report by anti-poverty campaigners found.
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COVID-19 vaccine passports are "feasible" but not until we know more about how long immunity lasts, experts said.
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Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi said that a successful fight against COVID-19 requires providing assistance to developing countries, equitable distribution of vaccines among world nations, and the removal of sanctions.
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The coronavirus vaccine financed by the Barakat Foundation of Iran is 100 percent effective against the new strain of the virus first found in the UK, an official said.
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National Desk
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Developing new COVID-19 vaccines will fail to end the pandemic unless all countries receive doses in a fast and fair manner, disease experts warned Saturday.
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The second consignment of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines developed to curb the COVID-19 disease arrived in Iran earlier than originally planned, the country's Health Ministry said.
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Tehran and Moscow have agreed to locally manufacture the Sputnik V, Russian vaccine against the coronavirus pandemic, said Iran’s Ambassador in Moscow Kazem Jalali.
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