Iranian Ministry of Health: Iran will become the world's largest vaccine producer and will export to the world

The new wave of epidemics in Iran has picked up in mid-February 2021. There are more than 7,700 new infections daily. The total number of new crown infections has exceeded 1.52 million, of which more than 1.3 million have recovered and more than 59,000 have died.

Iranian Health Minister Namaki stated on the 15th that Iran will become one of the world's largest producers of new coronavirus vaccines in the near future. Namaki promised that Iran will soon become one of the largest vaccine producers in the world, and will export the vaccine to all parts of the world, and will vaccinate all vulnerable groups in Iran by September. Since March last year, we have been seeking vaccines from foreign companies in three ways to provide the safest types of vaccines, and we are also trying our best to produce local vaccines. It has already cooperated with Cuba and hopes to start production in March.

Namaki also stated on the 11th that Iran will become an important hub for the production and export of new coronavirus vaccines within 2 to 3 months, and will become one of the world's vaccine exporters.