LPR will roll out anti-COVID vaccines in the liberated territories in August, the LPR Health Minister Natalia Paschenko said.
Medics from the liberated territories are undergoing training to vaccinate population with Russia-made vaccines.
"We are expecting the vaccine, and when August begins, we will be actively rolling out the vaccines in the liberated territories," Paschenko said.
First batches of vaccines are to be delivered to Starobelsk, followed by Stanitsa Luganskaya and Novoaidar.
"So far, the liberated territories requested 40,000 jabs."
LPR resumed anti-COVID vaccination on July 19 thanks to a new batch of vaccines delivered from Russia. The Ministry said that the epidemic situation at the moment is not a concern, no outbreak is observed.
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
