Karabakh residents could receive Russian Covid-19 vaccines

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Russian State Duma is going to ask the government about the possibility of providing Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccines in Nagorno-Karabakh, where Russian peacekeepers have recently been deployed, the Armenian Service of RFE/RL reports.

The proposal was drafted by the first deputy chairman of the committee for CIS affairs, Konstantin Zatulin. “There is simply no one to help people in these territories in terms of vaccination,” Zatulin told reporters.

It was reported earlier that 2,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine were sent to Nagorno-Karabakh for the Russian peacekeepers.

Armenia, meanwhile, is expecting the first batch of the Covid-19 vaccine by the first half of February. health authorities have said that the country is negotiating with several manufacturers, including Sputnik-V, Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca.