New Shipment of Over 1.4m Doses of Covid Vaccine Arrives

A shipment of more than 1.4 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Iran on Sunday and was delivered to the Health Ministry, according to the deputy head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration.
"The new vaccine shipment entered Imam Khomeini Airport from Italy at 10 p.m. [local time] containing 1.452 million doses of AstraZeneca from COVAX," Mehrdad Jamal Orounaqi was also quoted as saying by IRNA.
Prior to this shipment, 3.1 million doses of vaccines had been imported to Iran from four different countries since February.
AstraZeneca is a Covid-19 vaccine with 76% efficiency.
“The private sector has signed a deal to import six million doses of Covid-19 vaccines,” Masoud Khansari, the head of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, said recently.