The vaccine was unveiled in a ceremony on Sunday in the presence of IRGC Top Commander Major General Hossein Salami and Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki.
The recombinant vaccine was produced by Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences to fight the Covid-19 epidemic.
Noora vaccine has reached the stage of the clinical trial after 16 months of research work by Iranian scientists.
Addressing the ceremony, President of Baqiyatallah University said that the vaccine has reached the human trial phase following 16 months of animal tests, adding that after paving 3 clinical phases 1mln doses of the vaccine will be produced monthly and the number will increase to 3mln rapidly.
The Headquarters for the Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order (HEIKO) affiliated to the IRGC had earlier produced COV-Iran Barekat vaccine.
Senior member of Iran’s National Task Force for Fighting COVID-19 Minou Mohraz said last week that COV-Iran Barekat which has been developed by Iranian scientists at the HEIKO is more efficient than the China-made Sinopharm vaccine.
“COV-Iran Barekat vaccine is more efficient than the Chinese Sinopharm,” said Mohraz, also a senior member of the team to assess the efficiency of the Iran-made vaccine.
“Based on available assessments, effectiveness of this vaccine in terms of neutralizing antibodies is about 80%; in addition, this vaccine has not shown any serious side effect,” she added.
Mohraz said a limited number COV-Iran Barekat vaccine doses has already been supplied to the market "and by the end of June, another 2 to 3 million doses will be delivered for public vaccination, and then in the next one to two months, several million doses of the vaccine will be produced each month in the main plant".
She had also last week said that COV-Iran Barekat vaccine is efficient and has no significant side effects.
“Barekat vaccine has no side effects and one million doses of the vaccine are ready (for injection),” said Mohraz.
She also assured people not to be worried about the shortage of foreign vaccines in Iran, saying that even those who have received the first dose of imported vaccines can use COV-Iran vaccine for their second dose.
In relevant remarks late last month, Head of HEIKO Mohammad Mokhber said that nearly 30 million doses of COV-Iran Barekat vaccine will be produced and delivered to the health ministry.
“One million doses of the vaccine will be produced this month, 3 million doses next month, 10 to 12 million doses in July, and 13 to 15 million doses in August,” Mokhber said, adding that the vaccines would be given to the Health Ministry for vaccination.
He noted that from September, 20 million doses of the vaccine would be produced monthly.
The official pointed out that people's concerns regarding the virus would be resolved within the next 3 to 4 months.
He concluded that all Iranian vaccines had achieved the human testing phase and desirable results, but COV-Iran Barekat has had fewer side effects.