Gagauzia returned the whole lot of AstraZeneca vaccines to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection. The announcement was made by the head of the Comrat Public Health Center Ivan Hasta on a local radio station, IPN reports, quoting gagauzinfo.md.
According to Ivan Hasta, the public, including the medical community, since the start showed particular distrust in the vaccine due to the reports about its side effects. Only 50 persons, primarily health workers, have been vaccinated with AstraZeneca. They tried to use the rest of the vaccines to immunize the gropes covered by the second immunization stage of the vaccination campaign – persons older than 60 and persons with comorbidies. But no person expressed readiness to get a vaccine.
Ivan Hasta noted the vaccine must be used by May 31 and the doses were thus sent back so that they could be allotted to other regions of Moldova. “We coordinated this thing with the Ministry of Health. The vaccine was redistributed to other regions,” said the specialist.
As many as 240 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine were transmitted to ATU Gagauzia for immunizing health workers.
