U.S. donates 306,000 doses of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to Armenia

By Emilio Luciano Cricchio 

The United States has donated 306,000 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to Armenia, Armenia’s Health Ministry reported on March 14. 

Apart from this donation, the US government has already provided more than $15 million in assistance to the Armenian government to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. These funds were partly used to purchase 12,000 PCR test kits, oxygen concentrators, personal protective equipment, as well as to train Armenian healthcare workers. 

As of March 3, the US has delivered more than 480,000,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines to more than 110 countries. 

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On Sunday, 17 new cases of coronavirus were registered in Armenia, 1,432 tests were performed, 1.1% came back as positive. 

According to the Worldometer online platform, Armenia ranks 88th in the world in terms of coronavirus numbers with 422,021 cases. Georgia is in 45th place with 1,635,975 cases, Azerbaijan is in 68th place with 790,767 cases, Turkey is in 8th place with 14,551,665 cases, and Iran is in 13th place with 7,123,093 cases.