Foreign companies will no longer be able to test their coronavirus vaccines on Iranians. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stated this.
“Foreign companies wanted to provide us with vaccines to test them on the Iranian people. But the country's health ministry prevented this. Our people will not be a testing device for vaccine companies, ”Rouhani quoted Reuters as saying on Saturday. It noted that the president did not name the companies whose vaccines were banned.
On January 8, Iranian leader and spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced a ban on the import of coronavirus vaccines from the United States and the United Kingdom to the Islamic Republic. He stressed that he does not trust the drugs developed in the United States and the United Kingdom, noting that the Western powers "in some cases want to test the vaccine on other peoples." The Iranian leader also said that the republic is ready to purchase the vaccine in those countries that Tehran has confidence in, without specifying who it is about.
On December 29, Tasnim agency informed that the first phase of trials on Iranian coronavirus vaccine on volunteers has begun in Iran. According to the agency, tests are taking place in Tehran, during the first phase of testing, 56 volunteers will be injected. In total, about 60 thousand applications were submitted.
On December 22, Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis (Parliament) of Iran, Amir Hossein Kazizade Hashemi, at a meeting with Russian media representatives, said that Iran and Russia were negotiating the creation of a joint venture to produce a vaccine against coronavirus. On January 5, the Embassy of the Islamic Republic in Moscow told TASS that Iran and Russia are agreeing on a date for a face-to-face meeting on cooperation in the field of vaccine production. The diplomatic mission indicated that the deputy ministers of health of the two countries will most likely take part in it.
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