Tech Firms Playing Key Role in Battle Against Covid Pandemic

As the novel coronavirus resurges in Iran, local knowledge-based and tech firms have upped the ante in the fight against the lethal disease.
In the early days of the pandemic, the world faced challenges in supplying health protective equipment and virus prevention equipment on the one hand, and boosting the capacity to research and produce sterilization products on the other. Hence, domestic knowledge-based companies pitched in to fill the gap in Iran.
According to the Vice Presidential Office for Science and Technology, the local tech ecosystem produced clinical equipment, Covid-19 test kits, facemasks, medicines and sanitizers that marked a game-changer in the early pandemic days.
The office has been a strong supporter of tech teams working on medicines to reduce the disease's wide range of side effects.