Vaccine to Be Delivered to Azerbaijan in January, 644 Million Manats Spent on Fight against COVID-19

Baku / 07.01.21 / Turan: It is expected that the coronavirus vaccine will be delivered to Azerbaijan in January, President Ilham Aliyev said on January 6 at a meeting following the results of 2020.

Doctors have been mobilized, their salaries have been increased, and those caring for patients with coronavirus receive 3-5 times more. The population is provided with a large social package, including

Unemployed and temporarily unemployed. The total amount of funds for this amounted to several billion manats.

“We are waiting for the vaccine today. Hopefully the vaccine will be delivered to Azerbaijan this month, and all the contracts are signed. Then there will be a mass vaccination,” Aliyev said.

In turn, Prime Minister Ali Asadov said that 644 million manats have already been spent on the fight against COVID-19, another 261 million are planned to be spent this year, he said.

Considering that a lot of work has been done in 2020, there is no need for additional hospitals, modular hospitals. “We paid a one-time payment of 190 manats to the unemployed and temporarily unemployed four times. It took 450 million manats, the Prime Minister said. -16D-