A total of 6 million doses of Chinese-made Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines arrived at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on Oct. 26.
A total of 92.85 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been imported to Iran in 65 shipments, according to Mehrdad Jamal Arvanaghi, the technical deputy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration.
Iran’s new PMI data for the fiscal month of Shahrivar (August 23 – September 22), released by the country’s Chamber of Commerce shows that most businesses have begun to recover from the severe recession of the past two months caused by COVID-19 restrictions.
Iran is slated to receive 60 million shots of Covid-19 vaccines over the course of October and reach its target of securing 140 million vaccine doses by this month’s end.
The Iranian Red Crescent Society on Sunday imported its first shipment of Covid vaccines for children between the ages of three to 17 as the country prepares for large-scale school reopenings.
Iranian Minister of Health Bahram Einollahi said on Tuesday that Iran is scheduled to import 40 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the next Iranian calendar month of Mehr (Sep 23- Oct 22).
Iran is scheduled to import some 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine soon to vaccinate students against the pandemic, according to the Head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society Karim Hemmati.
With the arrival of three new consignments of COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday, the country’s total imports of COVID-19 vaccine will top 40 million doses, according to Deputy Head of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) Mehrdad Jamali.
One hundred million doses of Covid-19 vaccines will be imported by the end of 2021 as per contracts signed with international manufacturers, Nasser Riahi, the chairman of Iranian Pharmaceutical Importers Association, told IRNA on Sunday.