CLINICAL TRIAL

The three candidates who get vaccinated during the ceremony were Minoo Mohraz, a member of the national Task Force for the fight against the coronavirus disease, MP Hoseinali Shahriari, from southern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, and Mohammad-Ali Amir Zargar, a retired professor of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences.

The third phase of the human trial of the Iranian vaccine will be carried out on 20,000 people from six cities – Tehran, Bushehr, Shiraz, Karaj, Mashad and Isfahan.

Phase 2 and 3 of clinical trial for the first Iranian coronavirus vaccine, COVIran Barakat, began on Monday with two voluntary receivers.

Moradvand, cardiologist, and Rasoulinejad, infectious disease specialist, are the two lecturers of Tehran University Medical Sciences who volunteered to receive the vaccine to begin phase 2 and 3 of its clinical trial.