Iran’s President-Elect Meets COVID Vaccine Experts
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raeisi held a meeting with local authorities and experts engaged in the development and distribution of vaccines for the coronavirus.
A few weeks before taking office as the 8th president of Iran, Raeisi on Saturday held talks with the Iranian experts and officials involved in the plans to produce and distribute vaccine for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The meeting was attended by outgoing Health Minister Saeed Namaki, Head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society Karim Hemmati, Chairman of the Headquarters for Executing the Order of Imam Khomeini Mohammad Mokhber, a number of lawmakers, the CEOs of Iranian producers of vaccine, managers of the institutions and companies working on the distribution of vaccine, and the vaccination program experts.
In comments on Saturday, the outgoing president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, promised that his administration will make another 10 million doses of COVID vaccine available within the next two weeks and will complete the vaccination of people above the age of 65 and those with underlying diseases before the end of his tenure.
The death toll from the coronavirus in Iran has surpassed 86,960 since its outbreak in February 2020. So far, some 5.89 million people have received the first dose of coronavirus vaccine in the country.