More than 7,000 LPR residents receive anti-COVID jabs since July 19

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More than 7,000 LPR residents have been vaccinated since July 19, the LPR Health Minister Natalia Paschenko said.

"Vaccination campaign resumed on July 19. More than 7,000 have received jabs," she said.

According to the Ministry, 53 vaccination centres are open in the LPR territory as of February 24, and nine additional centres have been set up in the liberated territories.

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 

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