TEHRAN (FNA) - A senior Iranian medical official said that the country will present documents of tests made on its home-made coronavirus vaccine, COV-Iran Barekat, to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Registration of an Iran-made COVID-19 vaccine, COV-Iran Barekat, in the World Health Organization (WHO) is underway, Asqar Abdoli, a board member of Iran’s Pasteur Institute, said on Saturday.
He added that Iran is providing the necessary documents to be presented to WHO.
Apart from presenting the documents, experts from Iran have to defend the documents in person, Abdoli said.
He added that some 2 million doses of the vaccine will be available to the Iranian health ministry next week.
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei received a second dose of the indigenized COV-Iran Barekat coronavirus vaccine on Friday, his official website announced.
Ayatollah Khamenei had the first dose of Iranian vaccine COVIran Barekat injected earlier on June 25.
The Iranian vaccine was approved for emergency mass application by the country’s Health Ministry earlier this month.
Head of the COV-Iran Barekat vaccine project at the Headquarters for the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order (HEIKO) Hassan Jalili announced on Wednesday that the vaccine has proved 93.5% efficiency against coronavirus.