Vaccines in opposition to COVID-19 arrive in Azerbaijan inside COVAX initiative (UPDATE)

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BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 4

By Jeyhun Alakbarov – Development:

One other batch of vaccines in opposition to COVID-19 arrived in Azerbaijan inside COVAX initiative, Development stories.

The airplane with a batch of vaccines in opposition to COVID-19 has already landed on the Heydar Aliyev Worldwide Airport.

“Some 84,000 doses of AstraZeneca anti-COVID vaccine will likely be delivered to Azerbaijan,” Rosie Greaves, Chief Communications Officer of International Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) mentioned on the videoconference assembly with Chairman of the Board of the State Company for Obligatory Well being Insurance coverage of Azerbaijan Zaur Aliyev on March 30.

“Furthermore, 218,790 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech anti-COVID vaccine will likely be delivered to Azerbaijan inside eight weeks,” Greaves mentioned.

Generally, Azerbaijan plans to import 432,000 doses of the vaccine in opposition to COVID-19, owned by AstraZeneca firm, until late Could.