Number of children vaccinated with Pfizer reaches 485 thousand in Uzbekistan

As of December 7, 485,532 children aged 12 to 18 have been voluntarily vaccinated with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Health reported.

In particular, the process of vaccination of children against coronavirus is high in Fergana (100,644 doses), Samarkand (80,605 doses) and Namangan (56,600 doses) regions.

According to the decision of the State Sanitary Inspector and the National Technical Immunological Expert Commission, children over the age of 12 are vaccinated with Pfizer on a voluntary basis since 28 September in Uzbekistan with the consent of their parents and guardians.

To date, 35,353,114 doses of different types of vaccines have been administered in Uzbekistan.