IRAN’S COVID-19 CASES TOP THREE MILLION

Thu 10 June 2021:

Iran’s confirmed COVID-19 cases surpassed the three-million mark on Thursday, the health ministry said, while daily cases and deaths continued a downward trend after peaking in April.

In the past 24 hours, the country officially recorded 12,398 new infections and 153 fatalities, bringing total cases and deaths to 3,003,112 and 81,672, respectively, according to official figures.

A total of 2,590,682 people have recovered from the disease or been discharged from hospitals across the country, while 3,584 remain in intensive care units, the ministry said.

The report added that 21,065,451 tests have so far been carried out across the country.

By Wednesday, 4,281,268 people have received coronavirus vaccines in the country, while 706,695 have taken two doses.

In the morning, the second phase of the human trials for Iran’s locally developped Fakhra vaccine against COVID-19 began, with the inoculation of the vaccine on 500 volunteers, Iran’s state TV reported.

Fakhra is the third domestically-developed Iranian COVID-19 vaccine, after the COV-Iran Barekat vaccine, which is on the last stage of the third phase of human testing, and the Razi Cov Pars vaccine, which entered the second phase of human trials on May 27.

Iran reported first cases of COVID-19 in February 2020.

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