Armenia buys 400,000 Sinopharm vaccine doses

Armenia buys 400,000 Sinopharm vaccine doses

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia has purchased another batch of 400,000 doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, the Ministry of Health reports. The shots will be available for inoculation in the near future, authorities added.

Armenia is currently using AstraZeneca, Sputnik-V, Moderna, SinoPharm and CoronaVac vaccines to inoculate people aged above 18. The vaccination program rolled out across the country in mid-April, with health authorities also setting up mobile vaccination facilities near shopping malls and on major streets in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan said on Tuesday, November 2 that 254,000 people – or 12% of the country's adult population – have been fully vaccinated.

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