Most patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and admitted to intensive care units have not been vaccinated, Gayane Sahakyan, deputy director of the National Center for Disease Control, told reporters.

According to her, about 77-78% of all active positive cases are not vaccinated. 82% of hospitalized patients and about 80-82% of people treated in intensive care units also did not receive the vaccine.

According to Sahakyan, about 40% of the adult population of Armenia (about 890,000) have already received two doses of vaccine. Only 3.6% of them are covid-positive, which proves the effectiveness of the vaccines.

About 47.8% of the population has received the first dose of vaccine, and about 1% has been vaccinated again.

Gayane Sahakyan said that the WHO has set an ambitious goal for countries to vaccinate 70% of the population with two doses by July 1 this year, which will enable them to fight against rapidly changing and emerging strains and help get the virus out of circulation faster.