{"id":987645574,"date":"2021-05-11T05:46:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T04:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/on-05-10-azerbaijan-started-mass-vaccinating-all-citizens-over-18-against-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-05-11T05:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T04:46:36","slug":"on-05-10-azerbaijan-started-mass-vaccinating-all-citizens-over-18-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/on-05-10-azerbaijan-started-mass-vaccinating-all-citizens-over-18-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"On\/05\/10 Azerbaijan started mass vaccinating all citizens over 18 against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>On May 10, 2021, Azerbaijan has started <strong>mass vaccination<\/strong> of all citizens over 18 years old. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>COVID-19 vaccination in Azerbaijan was launched on January 18, 2021, but until now it was limited to certain populations, such as health care workers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>In support of moving to this comprehensive stage of public health measures, when any adult can receive the shot, WHO country office in Azerbaijan launched the <strong>#Peyv\u0259ndOlundum<\/strong> (<strong>#IamVaccinated<\/strong>) <strong>campaign <\/strong>as part of the vaccination support efforts in Azerbaijan. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>After taking the vaccine, people are invited to join the campaign using the specially designed profile picture frame in Facebook (following the link at: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3hdZjSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3hdZjSS<\/a>). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>As reported by 1news.az, citing the Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan, vaccination is carried out with <strong>&#8220;CoronaVac&#8221;<\/strong> vaccine developed by the Chinese <strong>Sinovac Biotech. <\/strong>In addition, starting from May 3, 2021, Azerbaijan offers its citizens <strong>&#8220;Vaxzevria&#8221;<\/strong> produced by the British-Swedish <strong>AstraZeneca, <\/strong>which is intended for use in people older than 60 years old in this country and is given in Baku (the capital) and six more regions. A total of 84 000 doses of Vaxzevria were delivered to Azerbaijan <\/span><\/span><\/span>as part of COVAX collaborative platform. Another source of vaccine procurement is <strong>Russian &#8220;SPUTNIC V&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; delivered to Azerbaijan on May 2, 2021. All these vaccines are acquired under the <strong>&#8220;Strategy for vaccination against COVID-19 in Azerbaijan in 2021-2022&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; a strategic document approved by the Prime-Minister <span><span><span>of Azerbaijan<\/span><\/span><\/span> on January 16, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>According to the Operational Headquarters under the Cabinet of Ministers, 170 additional people were vaccinated against COVID-19 in Azerbaijan on May 10, 2021. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>As of May 10th, <strong>1&nbsp;687 567 citizens have received the vaccine<\/strong>, of which 1&nbsp;005 704 (<strong>10% <\/strong>of the entire population, based on the latest official population census*) received the <strong>first dose<\/strong> of the vaccine; and 681 863 people (<strong>6.77%<\/strong>) received <strong>the second <\/strong><strong>dose<\/strong> of the vaccine**.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span>* State Statistical Committee of Azerbaijan at: <\/span><\/span><u><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stat.gov.az\/source\/demoqraphy\/ap\/\">https:\/\/www.stat.gov.az\/source\/demoqraphy\/ap\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/u> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span>**Based on information from the following sources:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><u><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/healthcare\/178849.html\">https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/healthcare\/178849.html<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/u><u> <\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><u><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span><a href=\"https:\/\/1news.az\/news\/20210510092735107-V-Azerbaidzhane-startovala-vaktsinatsiya-lits-starshe-18-let\">https:\/\/1news.az\/news\/20210510092735107-V-Azerbaidzhane-startovala-vaktsinatsiya-lits-starshe-18-let<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/1news.az\/news\/20210118062103468-Strategiya-vaktsinatsii-ot-COVID-19-v-Azerbaidzhanskoi-Respublike-na-2021-2022-gody-POLNYI-TEKST\">https:\/\/1news.az\/news\/20210118062103468-Strategiya-vaktsinatsii-ot-COVID-19-v-Azerbaidzhanskoi-Respublike-na-2021-2022-gody-POLNYI-TEKST&nbsp;<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 10, 2021, Azerbaijan has started mass vaccination of all citizens over 18 years old. COVID-19 vaccination in Azerbaijan was launched on January 18, 2021, but until now it was limited to certain populations, such as health care workers. In support of moving to this comprehensive stage of public health measures, when any adult&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987645574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987645574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987645574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987645574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}