PMO News Portal - Regarding the latest status of vaccination
of seafarers against Covid 19 virus, Changiz Javadpour stated: with the cooperation
of the Minister of Roads and Urban Development and the managing director of the
Ports and Maritime Organization with the Ministry of Health; The nationwide
vaccination of seafarers will start on Saturday (August 16th). in some ports of
the country, vaccination of seafarers has already started. The names and contacts
of 85,000 Iranian seafarers, including ocean-going seafarers and marine
partners, were provided and uploaded to the Ministry of Health and Medical
Education system.
The seafarers' vaccination against the Corona virus is
prioritized in such a way that age conditions are not taken into account. Given
the difficult conditions in the field of maritime transport, and seafarers not
always being available and to be vaccinated, the Ministry of Health accepted not
to include age factor with vaccination of seafarers; Javadpour further
explained.