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Iran gets Chinese vaccine for coronavirus Feb 28, 2021 08:12 UTC The first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines made by China's Sinopharm arrived in Iran, whose vaccination rollout has already begun with Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine. According to Tasnim news agency, a Mahan Air flight carried a cargo of 250,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine to Tehran in the early hours of Sunday. Sinopharm, a Chinese state-owned company, is developing two COVID-19 vaccines. It announced in December 2020 that phase three trials of the vaccine showed it was 79% effective. The United Arab Emirates, which approved a Sinopharm vaccine earlier this month,...
