Pfizer vaccine rollout in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan will vaccinate with Pfizer foreign adolescents from 12 to 18 years of age who live and study in the country. The Kazakh Chief State Sanitary Doctor made a corresponding addition to the decree. This also applies to students who have been living in Kazakhstan continuously for more than three months. In addition, according to the document, Kazakh teenagers, pregnant and nursing women must get vaccinated against COVID-19 with Pfizer. To date, according to the Health Ministry, more than 128,000 teenagers and about 32,000 pregnant and nursing women received the first dose of the vaccine, and over 5,500 people received the second dose.

 

Translation by Assem Zhanmukhanova

Editing by Saule Mukhamejanova