Batch of Russian Sputnik Light vaccine delivered to Lugansk

A batch of the Russian Sputnik Light vaccine against COVID-19 was delivered to Lugansk on Wednesday; the cargo is being unloaded into a warehouse of the Lugmedfarm state unitary enterprise.

“A batch of the Sputnik Light vaccine has been successfully delivered to the Republic. As of now, its unloading has finished at the warehouse of (state unlitary enterprise) Lugmedfarm and medical centers of several LPR towns. All precautions were observed and temperature requirements were met during the unloading operation,” the LPR Healthcare Ministry reported.

 LPR Head Leonid Pasechnik said that the Russian vaccine would be supplied to the Republic on July 28 and that every LPR resident could register for the one-dose vaccine starting Thursday.

The World Health Organization called the COVID-19 coronavirus infection a pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus. The first coronavirus infection cases were recorded in China in late 2019. The number of coronavirus contacts across the world has exceeded 194.6 million by now; of those, over 4.1 million people died, according to the WHO. The LPR confirmed 6,380 COVID-19 cases.

To prevent the spread of the coronavirus infection, the LPR authorities have put the Republic on high alert and introduced lockdown measures. *i*s