FNA - Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki announced on Saturday that the country plans to buy 20mln doses of coronavirus vaccine from an Indian company, while Iranian firms also continue their efforts to produce the vaccine. An Indian company has sold 100mln doses of coronavirus vaccine to the Americans in advance and the CEO of the company who ...

FNA - Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki said that the countrys experts are through with animal tests of coronavirus vaccine and are ready to enter the human trial phase. Although, we have volunteered to purchase the first confirmed COVID-19 virus vaccine in the world, fortunately, different complexes and several knowledge-based companies have ...

MNA In a letter to Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Iranian Minister of Health Saeed Namaki called for a global request for an end to the US illegal and unilateral sanctions that endanger global health. In his letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Namaki first presented a report on the state of the fight ...

Tasnim Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki announced the creation of a special national committee charged with overseeing the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. In a decree on Thursday, the Iranian minister tapped Dr Mohammad Mahdi Gooya, the head of the Health Ministry's Communicable Diseases Center, to lead the panel, which will be tasked with ...

Tasnim The world's top insulin-maker, Novo Nordisk of Denmark, has unveiled a production line of the drug in Iran, the Iranian health minister said. Saeed Namaki inaugurated the plant's production line, located in Alborz province, west of Tehran, via video conference. Today we are witnessing the inauguration of one of the most important projects ...

Tasnim Irans health minister said a number of vaccines for the novel coronavirus being developed inside the country have successfully passed the human tests and are ready for clinical trial. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Saeed Namaki said the collaboration among the knowledge-based companies, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, and ...

IRNA Iran's Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeed Namaki called on the regional countries to further cooperate in the fight against Coronavirus. The health program of the states in the Mediterranean region during which Iran, Iraq, Pakistan as well as Afghanistan cooperate under the supervision of World Health Organization (WHO) should ...

IRNA Iran's Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeed Namaki in a telephone talk with his Lebanese counterpart Hamad Hassan expressed his country's readiness for providing help to Lebanon in all fields. The Lebanese Health Minister appreciated Iran's Health Ministry for its readiness to help Lebanon, saying that Iran has always been with the ...

FNA - Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki said that his country managed to produce and even export medical equipment two months after the coronavirus outbreak despite the US harsh sanctions. Being able to turn into a producer and exporter of medical equipment from an importer in less than two months was one of the important achievements of the ...

Tasnim The Iranian minister of health said he has good news about a homegrown vaccine for the coronavirus disease, adding that Iran is catching up with advanced countries in vaccine production. In an address to a meeting at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education on Tuesday, Saeed Namaki said he has good news about the coronavirus vaccine ...

Tasnim Irans health minister said a homegrown vaccine for the novel coronavirus has successfully passed the initial tests. In comments at an online ministerial meeting of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region on Wednesday, Saeed Namaki said Iran has achieved remarkable success in producing the coronavirus vaccine. (It has) passed the initial ...

FNA - Health Minister Saeed Namaki said Remdesivir - a drug believed to be of help in fighting the coronavirus - produced by Iranian researchers has been distributed at medical centers, and added that the medicine will enter the market as of next week. Namaki made the remarks on Sunday and noted that another coronavirus-related medicine, Favipiravir,...

FNA - Health Minister Saeed Namaki declared the advances made by several Iranian research teams in the production of vaccine for the COVID-19 disease. "The Iranian-made vaccine worked on animals and yielded good results and will be soon experimenting for humans too," Namaki said. The Iranian health minister pointed to the activities of 57 research ...

IRNA Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education Saeed Namaki said on Saturday that despite the difficulties arising from coronavirus, Iran has been able to become a producer and, of course, exporter of modern medical equipment thanks to the efforts of the educated community of young professors and technologists. Addressing inaugural ceremony ...

Tasnim Irans Health Minister Saeed Namaki said the US should be held accountable for the growing number of coronavirus cases in the Islamic Republic. The criminal US which has imposed the worst, cruelest, and most unfair sanctions on Iran is to blame for the worsening situation in the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Namaki said on Wednesday....

Tasnim The Iranian health minister said the country's vaccine for the coronavirus is undergoing clinical trial as the infection continues to spread across the country. The vaccine made in the country to tackle COVID-19 in animals has proven successful in laboratory tests, Saeed Namaki said on Tuesday during the opening ceremony of Pharmex 2020 ...

Tasnim Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki said the country is still grappling with the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the peak of the complicated disease has not passed yet. In remarks at an online meeting with the presidents of the Iranian universities of medical sciences, Namaki said Iran is dealing with the first wave of the ...

IRNA Sima Sadat Lari was appointed on Tuesday as the spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education. Health Minister Saeed Namaki in a letter on Tuesday appointed Ms. Lari as the spokeswoman of the ministry keeping her current position as Deputy for Culture and Students Affairs. Namaki, among other things, mentioned Lari's valuable ...

MNA Islamic Republic of Iran will be turned into the largest producer of raw materials of pharmaceuticals in the Middle East region in very near future. Iranian Minister of Health and Medical Education Dr. Saeed Namaki made the remarks on Sun. and added, benefited from high scientific capacity and capability of domestic scientists and materials ...

Reuters - Iran could face a second, stronger wave of novel coronavirus infections if people ignore guidance and social distancing rules, health minister Saeed Namaki said on Monday. The Islamic Republic, one of the worst-hit countries in the region, started easing its lockdown in April after a drop in deaths. But May saw an uptick in the rate ...