Iran receives COVID-19 vaccine from Cuba

Iran enjoys warm relations with the Latin American state and the two countries are also developing a coronavirus vaccine together.
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Vicente Verez, director general of the Finlay Vaccine Institute, shows a vial of the Soberana 02 vaccine at the Molecular Engineering Center in Havana, Cuba, on Feb. 25, 2021. - YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images
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Al-Monitor Staff

Iran received a large shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from Cuba on Thursday.

A total of 100,000 Soberana 02 doses from the Latin American country were delivered to Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.

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