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Open vaccination campaign/ Manastirliu calls on citizens to get vaccinated

TIRANA, July 22/ATA/ The vaccination of citizens aged 18 years or older has been ongoing since Monday.

The Albania’s Minister of Health and Social Protection, Ogerta Manastirliu called on the citizens to get vaccinated as soon as possible to the nearest vaccination centers.

“Our country has good rates of COVID-19 vaccination, but there is still a need to increase immunization coverage. Thus, I call on all those citizens who have not yet been vaccinated to get as soon as possible to the nearest vaccination centers,” Minister Manastirliu said.

According to Minister Manastirliu, vaccination centers will stay open until 08:00 pm.The open vaccination campaign started on Monday and will continue until Sunday. Minister of Health, Manastirliu also stated that, the vaccination of citizens aged 18 years or older will be performed from time to time.

As many as 1,090,000 people have been vaccinated since the launch of Albania Smiles immunisation campaign, while Albania has so far administered 1,611,550 vaccines. //a.i/

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