Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Saturday said the country will start vaccination in March. Meanwhile, more than 675,000 health workers in Turkey have received COVID-19 vaccine developed by China s Sinovac.
Addressing a national committee meeting on fighting COVID-19, Rouhani said Iran will begin mass vaccination by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2021).
He also urged people to observe all necessary health protocols, saying if health protocols are not implemented, the country may run the risk of another peak in COVID-19 cases.
Rouhani said that Iran s joint vaccine with a foreign country will be ready next Iranian year, vowing to provide other vaccines bought from COVAX by the end of the current year or at the beginning of the next year.
Tehran [Iran], January 12 (ANI/Xinhua): Iranian health authorities announced on Tuesday 6,408 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours taking the overall count of cases in the country to 1,299,022.
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1:59 AM MYT CAIRO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that the mass vaccination process against the COVID-19 pandemic would soon start. Speaking to reporters in Istanbul after Friday prayers, Erdogan said that Turkey s Health Ministry has been continuing its work to launch the vaccination process. Turkey reported 11,479 new cases, taking the tally to 2,307,581, and 186 new deaths, bringing the death toll to 22,450. The total recoveries rose to 2,182,145. Currently, we have three (vaccine) sources, namely from China, Germany, and our domestic (products), Erdogan said. The first shipment of 3 million doses of China s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine had arrived in the Turkish capital Ankara on Dec. 30, 2020.