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Iran’s COVID-19 vaccine 90-percent effective in initial human trials
Feb 22, 2021 09:39Iran’s CovIran Barekat, the country's first domestically-developed COVID-19 vaccine, has showed 90-percent effectiveness, as confirmed by the first phase of human trials of the inoculation.
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Iran-Cuba COVID vaccine may hit markets in April: Iran health official
Feb 22, 2021 03:02A senior Iranian Health Ministry official says a nation-wide immunization program against coronavirus involving an Iranian-Cuban vaccine could be rolled out in April.
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Anger as Biden rejects major debt relief caused by student loans
Feb 21, 2021 05:04In the United States, university education is so expensive that it is the second-biggest cause of debt, exceeding both credit card and auto loan debt. Only mortgage debt generates a greater amount of money for banks.
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Coronavirus in Iran: New cases below 8,000
Feb 21, 2021 03:24Nearly 8,000 new coronavirus cases have been detected in Iran during the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry’s spokeswoman said.
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Iran to shut border with Iraq after surge in coronavirus cases
Feb 21, 2021 03:19Iran’s minister of interior unveiled plans to shut the border with Iraq in the southwestern Province of Khuzestan in order to contain a new wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Iran culls 1.4 million poultry to stem severe bird flu
Feb 21, 2021 02:47Iran has culled 1.4 million poultry birds in a province east of the country to contain the spread of the severe bird flu, known as H5N8.
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Biden urges Americans to take vaccines as storms hinder inoculation campaign
Feb 20, 2021 16:27President Joe Biden has reassured Americans that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and urged them to “please” take the shots, as a historic winter freeze across broad swaths of the United States is causing delays in vaccine shipments and deliveries.
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China, Russia vaccines saving people in Western Balkan as EU neglects region
Feb 20, 2021 05:30The European Union (EU) has come under fire for “neglecting" the Western Balkan region in the sharing of the coronavirus vaccine, while both Russia and China have adopted a transactional approach to the delivery of their home-made vaccines to the region.
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Iran to launch mass production of Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine
Feb 20, 2021 03:12Iran plans to start the mass production of Russia’s Sputnik V anti-coronavirus vaccines but will use a variety of vaccines, including Indian and Chinese ones.
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Venezuela kicks off COVID-19 vaccination program with Russian jab
Feb 19, 2021 06:17Venezuela started immunizing health care workers against the coronavirus Thursday with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, as the government said it intended to inoculate 70 percent of the population by year end.