Iran's new government has approved the use of the COVID-19 vaccine from US firm Johnson & Johnson a senior official said Thursday, as the Islamic republic faces a fifth wave of infections fights.
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President Ebrahim Raisi's government is under public pressure to expand its sources of vaccines as infections rise in the deadliest wave on record.
"The Johnson & Johnson single-dose coronavirus vaccine has been approved," Iran's Food and Drug Administration chief Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz said by Iranian media.
He did not say where the vaccine would be produced or make reference to the ban.
