Armenia Gets Russian Coronavirus Vaccine
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Armenia received the first major batch of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine early on Thursday.
Health Minister Anahit Avanesian said the 15,000 doses of the vaccine will be used to inoculate 7,500 people at highest risk of contracting COVID-19.
“Preference will be given to health workers of COVID [medical] centers, patients suffering from chronic illnesses and people aged 65 and older,” Avanesian told reporters.
The same high-risk groups of the population are also eligible for 24,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine which the Armenian government purchased and imported on March 28.
Health authorities were due to start administering the AstraZeneca vaccine shots on April 5. The inoculations were postponed, however, due what government officials called logistical problems.
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Armenia’s government has no plans to again shut down schools despite a renewed increase in coronavirus cases in the country, a senior official said on Wednesday.
The Armenian Ministry of Health reported in the morning that 340 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, significantly up from the daily number of new cases officially confirmed in early and mid-February.
The ministry also recorded five more fatalities caused by the disease, bringing to 3,237 the official death toll in the county of about 3 million. The figure does not include the deaths of 834 other people infected with the coronavirus. According to the ministry, they were primarily caused by other diseases.