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Lawmaker says Iran missing 200,000 vaccines

In yet another scandal surrounding Iran's contentious vaccine rollout, a senior lawmaker has said that hundreds of thousands of doses have been misallocated.
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Iranian parliamentarian Mohsen Dehnavi has alleged that based on the Health Ministry's database, some 200,000 doses of imported vaccines are unaccounted for.

Dehnavi, who is a member of the parliament's presiding board, added that his inquiry to the Iranian health minister regarding the missing vaccines remains unanswered. He promised that the parliament will investigate the matter.

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