INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Islamic Republic of Iran this afternoon
We are deeply grateful to continue vaccinating 200,000 people and protecting ourselves," Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo
said.According to a study, the effectiveness of the Iranian-made COVIRAN vaccine in fighting the coronavirus has been more than foreign
vaccinated against covid-19, which until this morning constituted "almost 93 percent " with a single dose and 85 percent with the full
schedule.The signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding for sending the COVIRAN vaccine to Nicaragua was held on March 17, in the
presence of the directors of the Barakat Pharmaceutical Group, the Nicaraguan Ambassador to Iran Isaac Lenin Bravo Jaen, and representatives
of the Ministry of Health and Foreign Affairs.Made by researchers at the Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam, COVIRAN Barkat
was unveiled on December 29, 2020, and received the license for public use on June 14, 2021.According to a study, the effectiveness of the
Iranian-made COVIRAN vaccine in fighting the coronavirus has been more than foreign rivals, namely Sinopharm, AstraZeneca, and Sputnik.The
study was performed on 1.8 million people in Fars province from the beginning of the vaccination process till October 2021, which considered
four vaccines of Sinopharm, AstraZeneca, COVIRAN, and Sputnik, Younes Panahi, the deputy minister of health for research and technology,
said in March.COVIRAN vaccine was 87 percent effective in protecting against coronavirus infection and 86 percent effective against
Covid-related hospitalization, compared with 84 percent and 82 percent, respectively for AstraZeneca
Sinopharm came in third with 80 percent and 72 percent, respectively.Iran is the sixth country in the world and the first country in West
Asia to gain the ability to produce the Coronavirus vaccine.FB/MG
