Iranian researchers developing coronavirus medicine, vaccine: media

Source: Xinhua| 2020-03-01 23:24:31|Editor: Mu Xuequan
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TEHRAN, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Iranian researchers are working on medicines as well as a vaccine to deal with the coronavirus, the Press TV reported Sunday.

Three research teams in Iran's Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University are working on COVID-19 treatments, Alireza Jalali, chancellor of the university, was quoted as saying.

"One of the drugs developed by the researchers has passed laboratory tests and we hope we could gain a positive result in the clinical stage," Jalali said.

He also said that Iranian researchers were working on a coronavirus vaccine. He expressed hope that the vaccine would be developed within less than a year.

Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education announced on Sunday that the outbreak of the COVID-19 has affected 987 people in the country and 54 of them have died.

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