In Iran, 820,000 of the doses of the COVID-19 vaccine that Poland contributed have been returned by the Iran authorities because all vaccines have been created in the United States.
On 21 February Monday, a health ministry official named Mohammad Hashemi mentioned that Poland had donated more than a million doses of the British-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccine to Iran.
He stated, “But when the vaccines arrived in Iran, we found out that 820,000 doses of them were imported from Poland were from the United States. After coordination with the Polish ambassador to Iran, it was decided that the vaccines would be returned.”
Along with this, Iranian Health minister ‘Bahram Einollahi’ has mentioned in a letter to the head of the customs authority that despite assurances by Poland, the jabs turned out to be from an “unauthorized source”.
He mentioned Polish providers have taken the pledge that they will “replace the vaccines with ones from an authorized source” and to take back and return the vaccination shots.”
Additionally, Iran is fighting against the sixth wave of the COVID-19 variant, as well as authorities mentioned that the Omicron variant is currently the Omicron variant that has put pressure on the nation.
As per the official numbers, over 135,000 of the maximum death has been noticed because of the variant of the COVID-19. On the other hand, Iran has the highest death rate in the Middle East.
90 pecent of the total population has been fully vaccinated with the two shots, and more than 18-year-old and 37 percent of the individuals have received the third vaccination shot (booster shot).
