Moldova's citizens to be vaccinated against COVID-19 according to plan with stages

Chisinau, 18 February /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova’s citizens will be vaccinated against COVID-19 according to a plan structured in three stages. The Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry (MSMPS) has made statements to this effect.  
According to MSMPS, up to ten per cent of the residents will be vaccinated in the first stage. The target groups will be the medical employees, the staff and the beneficiaries of asylums and placement centres.   
In the second stage, about 20 per cent of the population will be vaccinated. Thus, the people older than 60 years and those with comorbidities, the law-enforcement bodies’ employees, the penitentiaries’ employees, as well as the ones from the social sector and the teachers will benefit from anti-COVID-19 vaccine.   
Up to 70 per cent of the residents will be immunized in the third stage.
The Health Ministry said that the campaign of vaccination against COVID-19 would start as soon as the vaccine doses are brought to Moldova. The authorities have earlier informed that the first consignments of vaccine might reach Moldova in mid-February. It is about 24,570 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and 264,000 doses produced by Oxford/AstraZeneca. MSMPS received the confirmation of the vaccines’ supply on behalf of the COVAX platform on 30 January. The Romanian leadership has earlier informed that it would donate 200,000 dozes of anti-COVID vaccine to Chisinau.
Specialists say that the vaccination against COVID-19 is free of charge and is one of the best solutions to reduce the risk of making a serious form of the disease.
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