Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that halting Covid-19 is an 'urgent' priority and called for more vaccine imports and production, after record deaths and infections.
A handout picture provided by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him delivering a televised speech on the coronavirus situation in the capital Tehran, on August 11, 2021. /
Khamenei said the record number of casualties was “truly painful,” and demanded greater efforts to boost vaccine “imports and domestic production”.It has recorded more than 95,600 deaths and over 4.2 million infections, with health authorities acknowledging the official casualty numbers underestimate the real toll.
The authorities have approved the emergency use of two locally produced vaccines, with the only mass-produced one, COVIran Barekat, still in short supply. Khamenei on July 24 received the second Barekat jab, developed by a powerful state-owned foundation known as Setad, his office said.
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