Speaking at a provincial meeting of the Coronavirus Fight Headquarters on Sunday, Health Minister Saeed Namaki said he knew very well why the Leader has prohibited the import of US and UK-made vaccines for COVID-19. He pointed to the severe difficulties and major obstacles that Iran has encountered in supplying medicine for patients in dire need of mediation because of the US sanctions, saying Iran had big troubles even with the transaction of money for the purchase of coronavirus

first phase of human trial of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Iranian scientists began today. Two volunteers were injected, the first of scores of people recruited for the study. The first person who received the jab was a lady, the daughter of chairman of the Headquarters for Executing the Order of Imam Khomeini, the institution that has produced the Iranian vaccine. The volunteers injected with the homegrown vaccine are accommodated at a hotel in Tehran. The event on the