Anti-COVID-19 vaccination has resumed in the LPR, the Minister of Health Natalia Paschenko said.
"The vaccination campaign against COVID-19 has resumed on July 19. A medical indication for the vaccination is prevention of the coronavirus infection of adults older than 18 y.o. with the Gam-COVID-Vac vaccine," she said.
The contraindications are serious allergies, acute viral infections, exacerbation of chronic diseases.
The World Health Organization identifies the COVID-19 coronavirus infection as a pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus. The first coronavirus infection cases were recorded in China in late 2019. The number of coronavirus cases across the world has exceeded 561 million by now; of those, over 6.3 million people died, according to the World Health Organization.
To prevent the spread of the coronavirus infection, the LPR authorities put the Republic on high alert and introduced lockdown measures. The high alert state was lifted on May 30, 2022. *t
