Months ago, only the mobile vaccination sites saw large queues – mostly tourists, but now the same applies to polyclinics and most of those who come to the healthcare centers for the jab are locals.
Artak Jumayan, the director of the St. Gregory the Illuminator Medical Center’s polyclinic, told ARMENPRESS that in June 2500 received the vaccine in their healthcare center, and the figure rose to more than 4000 in July. For comparison, from April 13 until the end of May only 2300 people were vaccinated at Jumayan’s clinic.
Jumayan says they vaccinate averagely 120 people a day. “At one point those having chronic illnesses were actively coming to get the shot, but now many young people regardless of health condition are receiving the vaccine. Initially we had a problem that people were suspicious and hesitant, but now the ice is broken and many people are applying. For the record, the atmosphere of fear and suspicion is broken among people.”
Yerevan’s N17 polyclinic is also seeing large numbers of people eager to get the vaccine.
“You saw the queues yourself in the hall,” the polyclinic’s deputy director and head of immunization Anahit Pivazyan told ARMENPRESS’s Anna Gziryan at the healthcare center. “During the first days we had only 10-20 people getting vaccinated every day, but now we vaccinate around 100 peop...
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