Johnson & Johnson’s Covid jab has been added to Iran’s arsenal for emergency use, the country’s medicines regulator has announced, despite its import bans on vaccines made by the UK and the US earlier this year.
On Thursday, the chief of Iran’s Food and Drug Administration, Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz, was quoted by state media as saying that “the Johnson & Johnson single-dose corona vaccine has been approved.”
Shanehsaz added that “fortunately, the basket of the coronavirus vaccines registered in Iran has become very diverse and large,” as the country rushes to secure more doses to ramp up its inoculation campaign.
Another single-shot vaccine, Russia’s Sputnik Light, was also given the greenlight by Tehran on Thursday.
Iran is currently experiencing its ‘fifth wave’ of the Covid pandemic, fueled by the more contagious Delta variant. The number of new infections, however, has somewhat dropped since last month, when the country saw heavy caseloads and several days of record-breaking fatalities.
The approval of J&J’s Covid vaccine is a U-turn on Iran’s policy earlier this year, when Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banned the import of jabs made by the UK and US due to a lack of trust, as the two Western nations boasted some of the world’s highest mortality rates. However, the Islamic republic has already rolled out AstraZeneca for use, and called for more foreign vaccine imports on August 11.
Tehran has also previously hit out at Washington, saying its heavy sanctions block Iran’s access to vaccines and other key supplies, and dubbing such measures “medical terrorism.”
Iran, the Middle Eastern nation hardest hit by Covid-19, has administered over 27 million first doses of a vaccine, while almost 13.3 million people out of Iran’s 83-million strong population are fully vaccinated.
Împotriva articolelor redacției noastre, persoanele nemulțumite pot formula Contestație în termen de 10 zile de la publicarea articolului, la judecătoria Orășenească nr. 1 München Bayern Deutschland, in conformitate cu Legea federală Germană. Considerăm că nu se pot formula acțiuni la instanțele din România deoarece nici o persoană care activează în trustul nostru nu poate fi extrasă de sub jurisdicția federală germană. Considerăm că redacția noastră nu răspunde în fața autorităților din România ci doar celor federale sau civile germane. deoarece legea română nu are efecte de extraneitate asupra redacției chiar dacă subiectul știrilor face obiectul unor evenimente sau persoane din România și sunt scrise în limba română. Limba română nu este izvor de extraneitate a legii.
absolvent WEB DESIGN Academia Britanică de Comunicare Iasi - absolvent COMUNICARE IN AFACERI Academia Britanica de Afaceri si Comunicare -absolvent JURNALISM EDITORIAL - London School University - 2019 inscris la echivalare diploma la Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara - absolvent studii de Drept Universitatea Europeană Drăgan, cursuri in Drept la Universitatea de Vest Timisoara, absolvent studii de proiectare, pastor coordonator in Biserica Protestanta Evanghelica,
Android Developer pe Google Play și plugin developer la Oxwall, creator de teme Wordpress și Oxwall, operator Wordpress, Drupal, Oxwall, Osclass, Moodle, tehnologii HTML și PHP
Vials of ‘good’ bacteria cultured by Australian high-school students have been launched into space as part of an experiment to create nutrient-rich yogurt and study the effects of microgravity on the dairy-based microbes. A total of 36 samples – containing frozen milk and various strains of yogurt-producing bacteria – were sent to the International Space […]
The former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, has been released by Italian authorities without any precautionary measures after his arrest in Sardinia, but is required to stay on the island. On Friday, Puigdemont was allowed to walk free by Sardinian authorities a day after his arrest on the island. However, his first court hearing is […]
Beijing says that Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites passed dangerously close to its manned space missions, endangering the lives of its astronauts The Chinese government has filed a complaint with the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, claiming that its space station had to take evasive action to dodge starlink satellites on two occasions this year. […]
