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Iran Starts Human Trials of Its Own Virus Vaccine: IRIB News
An medic tends to patients in a Covid-19 unit in a hospital in Tehran.
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Iran started human trials of a locally developed coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, with the aim of making it available to the general public by summer, state-owned IRIB News reported.
The COVIRAN vaccine was given to three volunteers, including the daughter of the head of Setad, the state-run foundation that developed the vaccine, the report said. A total of 56 people are slated to receive the shots in the first of three clinical trial phases.