Only 38 in the 2006 hospitalized people infected with COVID-19 are those who’ve been vaccinated against the virus, Healthcare Minister Anahit Avanesyan said during the Cabinet meeting. Overall, out of the 11,470 active cases, 286 people are vaccinated, she said.
“Indeed, vaccination doesn’t rule out 100% the risk of getting infected,” she said.
“But it does significantly reduce that risk, but the most important goal is that [vaccinated] people don’t get seriously ill if infected.”
“It is recorded in many countries that as a result of vaccinations the rate of hospitalization and serious course of disease is dropping abruptly,” she further noted.
Speaking on the vaccination rates in Armenia, Avanesyan said that nearly 10,000 people got the jab on September 22...
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