Manufactured by the local Likvor company, with Russian technology, the vaccine will be used as a booster shot.
The Chinese Sinopharm, Russian Sputnik V and Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccines are now available in Armenia.
Thus, 1/3 of the vaccines to be used in Armenia will be AstraZeneca, although data on the effectiveness of its use among the elderly is limited.
While many countries have begun to vaccinate people against Covid-19, Armenia is still negotiating with the major vaccine manufacturers to get the drug.
Thus, every 45th person with coronavirus has died and every fourth tested is diagnosed with coronavirus.
The Armenian Ministry of Health reports that 4,936 people in the country were tested for the virus and 2,398 tested positive.
Twenty-nine people in Armenia died from Covid-19 overnight, raising the death toll to date to 1,272.
4,497 people were tested for coronavirus during the past day in Armenia and almost half, 2,213, tested positive.
2,474 people in Armenia tested positive for the coronavirus since yesterday out of the 5,760 tests conducted.
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