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65% of nursing home residents vaccinated against COVID-19

mahla — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 11:27:10 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Some 65 percent of the elderly being kept in nursing homes have received coronavirus vaccine, Mostafa Seraj, an official with Welfare Organization has said.

Influenza vaccination has been done in all day-care centers under the Welfare Organization’s control, and since early March, COVID-19 vaccines are being injected into these target groups, he added.

Currently, 900 nursing homes and care centers affiliated to the Welfare Organization are operating in the country, he noted.

Along with the vaccination of medical staff, 110,000 war veterans who were disabled during the Sacred Defense (the 1980-1988 war imposed by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein) and the elderly who are living in daycare centers will be vaccinated, Iranian Food and Drug Administration spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said on February 26.

According to the national vaccination document, vaccination against coronavirus started with priority given to health workers, vulnerable and high-risk groups, and then ordinary people will receive the vaccine.

Homegrown vaccines

COVIRAN BAREKAT, the first coronavirus vaccine made by researchers at the Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam which was unveiled on December 29, 2020, started to be mass-produced on March 29.

The second Iranian coronavirus vaccine, Razi Cov Pars, which started the clinical trial on February 27, will be mass-produced in early August.

Fakhra vaccine, the third homegrown vaccine, was unveiled and started the clinical trial on March 16.

On January 27, Health Minister Saeed Namaki said Iran will soon be one of the world’s important manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Mass-vaccination

Iran started mass vaccination against COVID-19 with Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine on February 9; which is also going to be co-produced by the two countries.

The first shipment of the COVAX vaccine was also delivered to Tehran in early April.

“Currently, about 250,000 people in the country have been vaccinated and about 56,000 others have received the second dose of the vaccine,” Alireza Raeisi, spokesman for the National Headquarters for Coronavirus control said.

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Iran General Inspection Org. chief calls for intl. community to confront corruption

reporter 1222 — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:13:37 +0000

Director of Iranian General Inspection Organization called for leading countries in the world and Asia to promote transparency and cooperate with one another in the field of confront corruption seriously.

Chief of Iran’s General Inspection Organization Seraj traveled to Japan on Saturday at the official invitation of Japanese Administrative Evaluation Tribunal.

Seraj met and held talks with the Japanese Prosecutor General Katsuyuki Nichikawa and expounded on the triple tasks of Iranian General Inspection Organization and said, “according to the Article 174 of Constitution, monitoring and inspecting, preventing, confronting administrative misconduct, corruption and also “ombudsman” activities and handling public complaints are the main programs of this Organization.”

He pointed to the measures taken by the Organization in the international arenas such as concluding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the leading countries in the world such as Japan and exchanging bilateral experiences as well as strengthening Asian ombudsman institution.

Most western countries are trying to defame developing states in the Asian continent and concentrate on undermining the Middle East region, he maintained.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Seraj hailed the administrative evaluation system and ombudsman activities taken by Japanese government and said, “exchanging experiences between the two countries of Iran and Japan in technical fields and holding joint training and educational courses to promote position of Asian countries more than ever in the international arena seem necessary.”

For his part, Japanese Prosecutor General Katsuyuki Nichikawa hailed special attention of Iran’s General Inspection Organization to develop and enhance bilateral ties with Asian ombudsman institutions and said, “the two countries of Iran and Japan have age-old experiences in this respect in a way that Iran and Japan have established necessary cooperation and coordination with each other since the establishment of Asian Ombudsman Association up to the present time.”

In conclusion, Japanese Prosecutor General Katsuyuki Nichikawa termed implementation of provision of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked between the two countries as very important.

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Seraj joins Sur for Fajr concert

reporter 1222 — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:30:33 +0000

Veteran vocalist Hesameddin Seraj (2nd L) accompanies the Sur band at a performance during the 33rd Fajr Music Festival at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on January 15, 2018.

The group led by tar virtuoso Majid Molania (3rd L) dedicated the song “The Tears of Moonlight” to Mohammadreza Shajarian, the legendary Iranian vocalist who is fighting kidney cancer.

The band also features Saber Suri on oud (1st L), Jamshid Safarzadeh (4th L) on santur and Hamid Qanbari on percussion.

(Tehran Times/Bahman Vakhshur)

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