Iran Press/Iran news: Kianoush Jahanpour tweeted on Friday: “To date, eight Iranian vaccines have been shortlisted for WHO’s COVID-19 vaccine.”
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Jahanpour shared a list of the WHO's vaccine candidates, showing the Iranian companies among them.
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US institution Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech SE said on Monday their experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective, a significant victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than a million people.
Iran’s Health Minister Saeed Namaki announced on November 2, 2020, that the Iranian knowledge-based companies and vaccine manufacturing companies such as 'Razi' and 'Barakat' foundations have started a tremendous work to make vaccines.
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